Small-caps climbed 3.3 per cent. Conservative chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz said he had secured the crucial backing of the Greens for a massive increase in state borrowing, clearing the way for ...

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 ...

Germany’s Greens vowed to block plans by likely next chancellor Friedrich Merz for a massive increase in state borrowing but left room for compromise yesterday on measures to revamp the military ...

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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 ...

Amid ongoing coalition talks, Merz’s Christian Democrats (CDU) and the Social Democrats (SPD) had agreed to borrow hundreds of billions of euros to invest into defence and infrastructure by ...

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 ...

Suddenly, Germany’s probable new chancellor, Friedrich Merz, has done what seemed impossible. Together with his fellow centrist leaders, he has unveiled a plan to override a long-running ...

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 ...