Friedrich Merz has expressed a desire to ‘strengthen Europe as quickly as possible’ in the face of a growing rift between EU ...

The next German government faces calls to loosen borrowing rules, slash energy costs and spur innovation. It won’t be easy.

Friedrich Merz may create a new European military alliance.

Germany's election winner Friedrich Merz wants to form a government quickly in order to revive a moribund economy, hike ...

However, owing to a constitutional amendment brought in by a previous coalition government, public spending in Germany is ...

Friedrich Merz says ‘intervention’ from Washington ‘no less drastic, dramatic, and ultimately no less brazen, than the intervention that we have seen from Moscow’ ...

OP-ED. The likely future German chancellor may be a hard-line conservative, but he could well be the man to transform the country and revitalize Europe, writes international relations specialist ...

Following rare back-to-back economic contractions in 2023 and 2024, German businesses are hopeful that a new government ...

Merz supports renewable energy, but his party resists aggressive climate action. The push for a green transition faces ...

The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) came in second, doubling its result from last time. Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democratic Party (SPD) lost a lot, their coalition partner the Greens a ...

After more than three years with Chancellor Olaf Scholz at Germany’s helm, Sunday’s election cemented the country’s lurch to ...

Of all three former governing parties, the Greens performed best in the recent general election. But they have still landed ...