Forget the back-slapping pol ready to banter about the Bundesliga; Friedrich Merz is a former corporate lawyer who wrote a ...

Such a plan would mark a step-change in Germany’s traditionally conservative approach to public borrowing. Berlin in 2009 ...

Germany’s general elections saw the opposition CDU/CSU emerge as the largest party with Friedrich Merz tipped to be next ...

Having led his party, the Christian Democrats, to first place in Germany’s election last month, Mr. Merz swiftly assumed the ...

German election winner Friedrich Merz's conservatives and Social Democrats have completed preliminary coalition talks. They ...

In Germany, coalition governments are typically formed through a two-step process: parties first engage in exploratory talks ...

Chancellor-to-be Friedrich Merz has agreed a deal with his likely coalition partner to inject hundreds of billions in extra funding into Germany’s military and infrastructure, in a “fiscal sea change” ...

European Union leaders are holding emergency summit talks to beef up their own military defenses and make sure Ukraine will ...

Friday's press conference had escalated after Trump and Vance berated the Ukrainian leader for being "disrespectful", ...

Already, Merz has pledged to increase defense spending and put Paris, Warsaw, and London at the lead of a new policy to shore ...

The US government has already revoked some access to satellite imagery for Ukraine and paused intelligence sharing, piling ...

Germany’s Friedrich Merz, poised to be his country’s next chancellor, said he thinks the explosive exchange between Ukrainian ...