Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz urged sceptical lawmakers on Thursday to back his proposals for a massive increase in ...

A senior ally of Germany's likely next chancellor Friedrich Merz on Tuesday was optimistic about securing support for a ...

Merz has underlined his sense of urgency over increasing defence spending. After winning elections last month, he said it was ...

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

Germany's likely chancellor-to-be announces a political deal to raise hundreds of billions of euros in extra spending.

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Friedrich Merz, leader of the Christian Democratic Union, CDU, ...

Not so long ago, European corporate bosses were worried about missing out on the “Trump bump”. U.S. President Donald Trump’s ...

Chancellor-in-waiting Merz wants to form a coalition by Easter and has warned it was "five minutes to midnight" for Europe to ...

But, although he will not become chancellor for some weeks, Friedrich Merz, who won Germany’s election on February 23rd, has ...