However, it will also face big foreign policy challenges— almost all of which are linked to Donald Trump. Those were the ...

The German chancellor-in-waiting, Friedrich Merz, has won a vote in parliament to allow a huge increase in state borrowing ...

Friedrich Merz's debt-funded investment package is still facing unknowns, that could sink the legislation and doom his ...

FILE PHOTO: Friedrich Merz, chancellor-in-waiting and leader of Christian Democratic Union party (CDU), looks on as he ...

Even though negotiations to form a coalition have not yet begun, the head of the Christian Democratic Union party, which came ...

Likely next chancellor Merz says he ‘cannot imagine’ deploying European troops in Ukraine under current circumstances, but ...

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Germany's constitutional court has received more legal complaints from lawmakers against plans by ...

This time it is Friedrich Merz, the supposedly steel-spined conservative who spent years critiquing Angela Merkel’s drift ...

Chancellor-in-waiting uses outgoing Bundestag to loosen debt brake and unleash investments in defence and infrastructure ...

Under Germany's constitution, Merz needs a two-thirds majority to get the changes passed. With the support of the Greens and ...

Mr Merz’s conservatives and the Social Democrats are in negotiations to form a government after February's election. Read ...

The conversation with Germany's likely next chancellor comes before this week's EU leaders' summit, Euractiv has learned.