After decades of low spending, Germany's likely next chancellor Friedrich Merz hopes to splurge billions of extra euros on ...

Coalition negotiations between the Christian Democrats and Social Democrats to form a new federal government began Thursday.

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

By Andreas Rinke, Vera Eckert and Matthias Williams BERLIN (Reuters) -German election winner Friedrich Merz's conservatives ...

Europe must never again find itself in a position where the likes of US vice-president JD Vance have life-and-death power ...

Friedrich Merz's conservatives and SPD initiate talks on a coalition government in Germany. Key agenda points include migration control, welfare reforms, energy production goals, and economic ...

Historically, Germany's Social Democrats (SPD) were the most popular among migrants with their advocacy for workers' rights, social welfare and integration. But the party was the biggest loser at this ...

Guntram Wolff of Bruegel, a think-tank in Brussels, and Alex Burilkov of Leuphana University Lüneburg calculate the immediate ...

Germany needs to get its act together ... Committed to tax breaks for the wealthy, harsh restrictions for migrants and cuts for welfare recipients, he is a throwback figure.