Germany's likely next leader Friedrich Merz is set Thursday to defend his unprecedented plans to massively ramp up defence ...

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

The clock is ticking for Merz to persuade lawmakers in the outgoing parliament to back plans to unshackle Germany's tight ...

The party said they would not support the conservative chancellor-in-waiting’s paradigm-changing plan to invest massively in ...

BERLIN – The Greens announced on Monday that they won’t support the debt-funded investment package proposed by Germany’s ...

Hours after his election victory last Sunday, Friedrich Merz, the leader of Germany’s center-right Christian Democrats (CDU), said on national television that he would try to “achieve ...

The CDU/CSU and SPD are proposing to create a special fund of €500bn for infrastructure and defence by reforming the ...

The opposition Alternative for Germany (AfD) party may deprive the future "big" coalition led by the likely Chancellor ...

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Germany's CDU, CSU and SPD parties have produced an exploratory paper on their plans on various topics, including migration, ...

The BDI, Germany's influential industrial lobby, has welcomed the plans and said they would provide much-needed relief for energy-hungry sectors such as steel and chemicals, as well as the small- and ...