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 ...

Such a plan would mark a step-change in Germany’s traditionally conservative approach to public borrowing. Berlin in 2009 ...

The first step towards Mr Merz being effective on the European stage is for him to forge a coalition with the centre-left ...

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

Germany’s Friedrich Merz, poised to be his country’s next chancellor, said he thinks the explosive exchange between Ukrainian ...

"A really big bazooka," wrote Berenberg economist Holger Schmieding, commenting on the German measures. "These proposals for ...

The prospective partners in Germany’s next government say they will seek to loosen the nation’s rules on running up debt to ...

Berlin may have found a way to rearm despite balanced-budget restraints.

Chris Bryant is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering industrial companies in Europe. Previously, he was a reporter for the ...

But, although he will not become chancellor for some weeks, Friedrich Merz, who won Germany’s election on February 23rd, has ...

In Germany, coalition governments are typically formed through a two-step process: parties first engage in exploratory talks ...