EU chief Antonio Costa on Thursday hosted Germany's likely next leader Friedrich Merz for talks ahead of a key summit on ...

The European Union is moving toward easing its fiscal rules to allow for more defense spending after a U-turn from Germany ...

Germany’s Greens say they won't support the prospective next government’s plans to loosen debt rules for defense spending and ...

Germany has emerged from its recent election with a grand coalition of the center-right CDU/CSU and the Social Democratic ...

Germany’s chancellor-to-be, Friedrich Merz, has said he will reach out to France and Britain to discuss the sharing of ...

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

While Merz is already setting the scene for his chancellery with an unprecedented, debt-funded investment announcement, ...

Germany's economy is in desperate need of foreign labor, but a political environment hostile to all kinds of immigrants makes ...

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

The prospect of a military spending boom by Germany unprecedented since the Cold War sent Europe's defence stocks soaring ...

“Friedrich Merz is perhaps the most international chancellor Germany has had since the war — if he becomes ... that we ...