Under pressure from Trump and with Russia menacing, Germany's incoming leader plans to revamp the country's defense posture.

The likely next government should have substantial financial leeway, thanks to credit-financed special funds. However, it ...

The German chancellor-in-waiting, Friedrich Merz, has won a vote in parliament to allow a huge increase in state borrowing ...

Germany’s would-be next chancellor, Friedrich Merz, won lawmakers’ approval Tuesday for ambitious plans to loosen the ...

Friedrich Merz, almost assured to be Germany’s next chancellor, is ignoring conventional wisdom when it comes to relations ...

Likely next chancellor Merz says he ‘cannot imagine’ deploying European troops in Ukraine under current circumstances, but ...

Germany's parliament approved plans for a massive spending surge on Tuesday, throwing off decades of fiscal conservatism in ...

An incoming government wants to borrow much more to revamp the economy and rebuild the military. That means a change in the ...

Chancellor-in-waiting uses outgoing Bundestag to loosen debt brake and unleash investments in defence and infrastructure ...

German voters have had their say. Now their verdict is being turned into reality underneath the glass dome of Berlin’s ...

Germany's prospective government led by Friedrich Merz has passed a plan to increase defense spending by relaxing debt rules.

‘Germany is back,” incoming Chancellor Friedrich Merz declared Friday, and it may even be true. He was announcing an ...