Forget the back-slapping pol ready to banter about the Bundesliga; Friedrich Merz is a former corporate lawyer who wrote a ...

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

Germany’s general elections saw the opposition CDU/CSU emerge as the largest party with Friedrich Merz tipped to be next ...

German election winner Friedrich Merz's conservatives and Social Democrats have completed preliminary coalition talks. They ...

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

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

The US government has already revoked some access to satellite imagery for Ukraine and paused intelligence sharing, piling ...

European Union leaders are holding emergency summit talks to beef up their own military defenses and make sure Ukraine will ...

Friday's press conference had escalated after Trump and Vance berated the Ukrainian leader for being "disrespectful", ...

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

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

The CDU/CSU and SPD are proposing to create a special fund of €500bn for infrastructure and defence by reforming the ...