Friedrich Merz has a reputation for being tough on China, but the need to accommodate a coalition partner and headwinds from ...

Preliminary talks between Germany's CDU and SPD have yielded an early result, with the parties agreeing on a special fund to boost defense spending, freed from the "debt brake." ...

Germany's government-in-waiting unveiled a plan to boost defense spending by hundreds of billions of dollars by the end of ...

Germany's potential future governing parties - the CDU/CSU and SPD - have reached a landmark agreement on new borrowing for ...

The two political parties expected to form the next German government have agreed to significantly loosen the country’s ...

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

On Tuesday, the European Commission proposed an emergency clause allowing countries to temporarily increase their defense ...

Germany's likely next chancellor Friedrich Merz said Tuesday that his centre-right CDU/CSU and the centre-left Social ...

BERLIN - The parties hoping to form Germany's next government on Tuesday agreed to create a 500 billion euro infrastructure ...

After the first exploratory talks between the CDU/CSU and SPD in Germany on the possible formation of a government, ...

A provision would exempt defence spending above 1% of GDP from debt brake rules, enabling Germany to increase military spending without limit. #EuropeNews ...

Germany has been wary of projecting military might since the horrors it perpetrated under Nazism. Read more at ...