Germany's Greens may refuse to back plans by likely next chancellor Friedrich Merz for a massive increase in state borrowing, ...

Germany’s Green party said it will reject a debt-financed package that would unleash hundreds billions of euros in defense and infrastructure spending, leaving chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz ...

Friedrich Merz, who is on course to become post-World War II Germany's 10th chancellor after the country's election, has ...

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Who is Germany’s election winner and how will he fare against AfD leader Alice Weidel? - Friedrich Merz has taken aim at the ...

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

Compared to last October, the vote for the CDU/CSU is down slightly vis a vis the polls, the AfD have not rallied as much as ...

Chancellor-in-waiting Merz wants to form a coalition by Easter and has warned it was "five minutes to midnight" for Europe to ...

Mr. Hermsmeier is a journalist who writes about Germany’s politics and society. Friedrich Merz didn’t waste time. Having led his party, the Christian Democrats, to first place in Germany’s ...

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

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

Germany's Social Democrats (SPD) said on Wednesday they had agreed to start talks on a possible coalition with Friedrich Merz ...