Election winner Friedrich Merz said on Friday he was open to reforming Germany's legally prescribed spending limits as his ...

Negotiators from German election winner Friedrich Merz’s conservative bloc and the center-left Social Democrats have started ...

Hours after Friedrich Merz's conservatives won Germany's national election, he sent the outgoing Social Democrat government a ...

AfD leader Alice Weidel accuses Germany's likely future chancellor Friedrich Merz of "election fraud." She says Merz promised to "close the borders" but did the opposite. Is that true?

Shortly after the German election polls closed Sunday, Elon Musk placed a congratulatory call — but not to conservative ...

Negotiators from German election winner Friedrich Merz's conservative bloc and the centre-left Social Democrats started ...

It’s not just in Britain that defence spending is top of the agenda. In Germany, too, the debate has turned to how the ...

Such talks often drag on for weeks if not months in Germany, but Merz is in a hurry to reach a deal with Europe's biggest economy facing economic malaise and an upheaval in relations with the U.S.

The German elections are, in many respects, paradoxical. The electoral shifts, which saw the major parties’ combined vote ...

Twenty-five years after the launch of the euro, the European Union faces a serious predicament, with the two largest ...

Friedrich Merz, Germany's election winner, is considering reforms to Germany's spending limits to rejuvenate its economy and military. Talks with the Social Democrats are underway despite election ...

Friedrich Merz, Germany's likely next head of government, is already trying to shape foreign policy. He is especially concerned about Germany's ailing relationships with France and Poland.