Mr Merz revealed plans for two changes to the debt brake, a constitutional provision in place since 2009 that lets the ...

Germany's likely chancellor-to-be announces a political deal to raise hundreds of billions of euros in extra spending.

the culmination of a yearslong political career that was once sidelined by his party’s iconic leader BERLIN -- Friedrich Merz ...

Negotiators from German election winner Friedrich Merz’s conservative bloc and the center-left Social Democrats have started ...

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

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

Friedrich Merz faces a host of political, economic and foreign policy challenges as he puts together a working coalition ...

Hours after Friedrich Merz's conservatives won Germany's national election, he sent the outgoing Social Democrat government a ...

The conservative CDU led by Friedrich Merz won Germany's 2025 election. Here's a look at the wins and losses, seats in ...

Germany is the latest European country to shift to the right, following last weekend’s elections.  Economic decline is a big ...

Christian Democrats won with their leader, Friedrich Merz, expected to be next chancellor of Germany. But the far right and ...

(AP Photo/Martin Meissner) BERLIN (AP) — Friedrich Merz, on course to become post-World War II Germany's 10th chancellor after the country's election, has vowed to prioritize European unity and ...