Forget the back-slapping pol ready to banter about the Bundesliga; Friedrich Merz is a former corporate lawyer who wrote a ...

Even though negotiations to form a coalition have not yet begun, the head of the Christian Democratic Union party, which came ...

Losing faith in Washington as a military ally, Berlin wants to rip up the old fiscal orthodoxy. But it’s now a race against ...

Eurobonds are being touted as the silver bullet to resolve the fiscal burden facing EU members as they plan to rearm themselves amid the threat from Russia. But raising joint debt is hugely ...

Friedrich Merz, leader of Germany's CDU/CSU parliamentary bloc, is set to lead the next government after his party came first ...

The German chancellor-in-waiting said he would like talks with France and Britain about sharing weapons, but not as a ...

BERLIN – The Greens announced on Monday that they won’t support the debt-funded investment package proposed by Germany’s ...

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

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 ...

BERLIN — Germany’s Greens are vowing to put an end to Friedrich Merz’s paradigm-changing plan to invest massively in defense and infrastructure. Greens leaders on Monday said they would urge lawmakers ...

European Union leaders are holding emergency summit talks to beef up their own military defenses and make sure Ukraine will ...

The European Union is getting good at adapting to unprecedented circumstances. Over the last five years, the 27 member ...