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

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

Friedrich Merz, the leader of Germany's conservative bloc and the country's likely next chancellor, expects the ongoing ...

The German Social Democratic Party (SPD) demanded major pro-immigration commitments as a precondition for joining a coalition with the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). The topic of immigration has gr ...

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

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

We simply must become stronger together in nuclear deterrence in Europe,' Merz, expected to become Germany's next chancellor, ...

Compulsory military service should be reintroduced this year in Germany, a leading official of the party that won recent ...

In a country torn between its attachment to the transatlantic link and its hostility to nuclear weapons, Friedrich Merz, the ...

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

Friedrich Merz (L), Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU) candidate for chancellor and federal CDU chairman, Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) Federal Chairmen Lars Klingbeil (2nd R ...