Berlin (AFP) – Germany's likely next leader Friedrich Merz said Thursday urgent action was needed to boost the country's under-resourced military and ailing economy, as he defended plans for a ...

Jedoch stellen sich erste Nachbarländer dagegen. Droht Merz' Migrationsplan bereits das Aus? Berlin/Wien – Es war der Knackpunkt in den Sondierungsgesprächen zwischen Union und SPD ...

BERLIN — Friedrich Merz's historic spending plan for Germany hinges on the cooperation of a party many of his conservatives have often derided. It's the Greens — the defeated, center-left party that ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany’s Greens vowed to block plans by likely next chancellor Friedrich Merz for a massive increase in state borrowing to revamp the military and revive growth but forwarded ...

BERLIN — Germany’s Greens are vowing to put an end to Friedrich Merz’s paradigm-changing plan to invest massively in defense and infrastructure. Greens leaders on Monday said they would urge lawmakers ...

Schon nächste Woche will Merz offenbar eine Sondersitzung im Bundestag für Sondervermögen einberufen. Damit könnten schon bald die Milliarden sprudeln. Berlin – Im Wahlkampf hat Friedrich ...

A future German coalition government could take a "more rational" approach to China policy, a former Chinese envoy to Germany says, pointing to likely chancellor Friedrich Merz's focus on the ...

Merz, whose conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) emerged the biggest in February’s legislative elections, wants in particular to relax the strict limits imposed by the “debt brake ...

German Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz on Sunday said he would like talks with France and Britain about sharing their nuclear weapons, but not as a substitute for US nuclear protection of Europe.

Schon wieder Zeitenwende? Noch bevor ein Koalitionsvertrag geschlossen ist, fängt die ein mutmaßlicher Kanzler Merz da an, wo die Regierung Scholz stehen geblieben war. Nur tut das Merz „all ...

German Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz is open to making concessions to the Greens to secure support for constitutional changes that would unleash hundreds of billions of euros in defense and ...