Election winner Friedrich Merz said on Friday he was open to reforming Germany's legally prescribed spending limits as his ...

The victory of the Christian Democratic leader in the February 23 German parliamentary elections was met with relief by ...

Hours after Friedrich Merz's conservatives won Germany's national election, he sent the outgoing Social Democrat government a ...

German chancellor and French president among those standing by Kyiv, as European vice-president vows to step up backing for ...

Twenty-five years after the launch of the euro, the European Union faces a serious predicament, with the two largest ...

Conservative party leader Friedrich Merz is poised to become Germany's next chancellor. He's long been a transatlanticist, but has made clear he's no fan of US President Donald Trump.

Such talks often drag on for weeks if not months in Germany, but Merz is in a hurry to reach a deal with Europe's biggest economy facing economic malaise and an upheaval in relations with the U.S.

Shortly after the German election polls closed Sunday, Elon Musk placed a congratulatory call — but not to conservative ...

Amid a growing divide between the United States and Europe, the continent has sharply accelerated its efforts to address ...

Germany’s 2025 election results mark a right-wing shift, reshaping European politics and US-EU relations. As CDU and AfD gain ...

Negotiators from German election winner Friedrich Merz's conservative bloc and the center-left Social Democrats started exploratory talks Friday on a possible coalition government, but were tightlippe ...

It’s not just in Britain that defence spending is top of the agenda. In Germany, too, the debate has turned to how the ...