Berlin seals a deal to ramp up defense spending indefinitely.

Germany's likely next chancellor, Friedrich Merz, on Friday hailed a cross-party agreement on a landmark infrastructure and ...

Mr Merz’s conservatives and the Social Democrats are in negotiations to form a government after February's election. Read ...

German lawmakers have reached an agreement to exempt some defense spending from the nation's tight rules on running up debt.

After long negotiations between the CDU/CSU, SPD and the Greens, a deal appears to have been reached to secure a two-thirds majority for the announced fiscal package at the official vote in the German ...

By Andreas Rinke, Holger Hansen and Sarah Marsh BERLIN (Reuters) -German Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz said on Friday ...

The deal follows several days of often acrimonious debate during which the Greens had threatened to withhold their ...

German Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz was set to make a last-ditch attempt on Friday to convince the Greens of his ...

Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz wants to alter Germany's strict fiscal rules to massively boost defence spending, the ...

The German Social Democratic Party (SPD) demanded major pro-immigration commitments as a precondition for joining a coalition with the Christian Democratic Union (CDU).

Box office is down, producers are struggling and a promised tax break is still MIA. "If things don't change soon, the damage ...

Germany's potential next chancellor, Friedrich Merz, plans to overhaul strict borrowing rules with support from the SPD. The proposed off-balance-sheet fund aims to boost infrastructure and exempt ...