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

By Andreas Rinke, Vera Eckert and Matthias Williams BERLIN (Reuters) -German election winner Friedrich Merz's conservatives ...

A new deal with the Greens could allow for as much as €1 trillion in new spending for defense and infrastructure over the ...

The agreement reached with the Greens would allow Germany to spend up to €1 trillion on defence and infrastructure over the ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - German Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz was set to make a last-ditch attempt on Friday to convince the ...

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

German election winner Friedrich Merz's conservatives and the Social Democrats (SPD) have concluded preliminary talks towards ...

The Greens vow to foil the chancellor-in-waiting’s historic plan to invest big in defense and infrastructure. But it may just ...

Merz's conservatives and the center-left Social Democrats – in talks to form a coalition after February's general election – ...

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

German conservative leader Friedrich Merz reached a tentative agreement with the Green party on a debt-funded spending ...

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