Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz wants to alter Germany's strict fiscal rules to massively boost defence spending, the Greens are standing in his way.
Chancellor-to-be vows greater share of investments for green transition as outgoing Bundestag reconvenes to debate bills ...
Nach dem Wahlsieg der Union am 23. Februar hat Unions-Kanzlerkandidat Friedrich Merz sein Wahlversprechen, zu einer ...
BERLIN — Germany's likely next government under conservative leader Friedrich Merz has said it plans a shot in the arm for ...
Even though negotiations to form a coalition have not yet begun, the head of the Christian Democratic Union party, which came ...
But, although he will not become chancellor for some weeks, Friedrich Merz, who won Germany’s election on February 23rd, has ...
Germany's Greens may refuse to back plans by likely next chancellor Friedrich Merz for a massive increase in state borrowing, ...
Merz, a man who has never held a government role, is preparing to take the reins in Germany just as the country faces economic and diplomatic crises.
Forget the back-slapping pol ready to banter about the Bundesliga; Friedrich Merz is a former corporate lawyer who wrote a ...
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 ...
Friedrich Merz is on course to become post-World War II Germany’s 10th chancellor, the culmination of a yearslong political career that was once sidelined by his party’s iconic leader BERLIN -- ...
The German federal polls have closed, and the exit polls appear to have handed the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) a victory ...