Already, Merz has pledged to increase defense spending and put Paris, Warsaw, and London at the lead of a new policy to shore up Ukraine’s sovereignty and defend Europe from Russia with or without the ...

Friedrich Merz, poised to become Germany’s next chancellor, is charting an unexpected course in relations with President ...

A bold move by Germany’s prime minister-in-waiting Friedrich Merz to ease longstanding caps on government spending has won ...

The likely next chancellor has staked his government on a move to increase military spending. But the window for change is closing fast.

Mr. Hermsmeier is a journalist who writes about Germany’s politics and society. Friedrich Merz didn’t waste time. Having led his party, the Christian Democrats, to first place in Germany’s ...

Ein Urteil aus Karlsruhe könnte am Mittwoch ein Milliardenloch in die Etatpläne der künftigen Koalition reißen – wie vor zwei ...

Friedrich Merz, opined that the staggering rise of the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD), with its vote share of almost 20%, is a “real warning bell, a real alarm bell for the political ...

Friedrich Merz's conservatives won national election Conservatives need Chancellor Scholz's Social Democrats for coalition But Merz's imperious style is riling leading SPD politicians Merz sent ...

Negotiators from German election winner Friedrich Merz’s conservative bloc and the center-left Social Democrats have started exploratory talks on a possible coalition government.

Christian Democratic Union (CDU) leader Friedrich Merz at talks between the conservative union CDU/CSU parties and the Social Democratic Party (SPD) on the formation of a future government ...