Weidel led the Alternative for Germany, a male-dominated party accused of far-right extremism, from the fringes into the ...

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Under Merz, a one-time fiscal conservative, Germany is ready to lift its debt ceiling and enlarge defence spending in ...

The announcement comes after Austria, to the south, rejected Germany's idea of turning back asylum seekers at the border, ...

Current Bundestag could pass package next Tuesday, but after that, approval by 2/3 of votes in Federal Council is also ...

Coalition negotiations between the Christian Democrats and Social Democrats to form a new federal government began Thursday.

The February 23 parliamentary poll in Germany produced several outcomes, the prominent being a highly fractured verdict.

Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz wants to alter Germany's strict fiscal rules to massively boost defence spending, the Greens are standing in his way.

The deal marks a significant shift from decades of fiscal restraint in Berlin, aiming to boost defense spending amid growing ...

US nuclear weapons are still stationed in Germany. But President Donald Trump's pivot away from Europe is weakening shared ...

Delegations from Christian Democratic Union Party, Christian Social Union Party, Social Democratic Party meet in capital ...

German lawmakers have reached an agreement to exempt some defense spending from the nation’s tight rules on running up debt.