The successful completion of the probing negotiations for the winner of the Bundestag elections, the Christian Democratic ...

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

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

Germany's chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz has promised to "massively expand border controls" once the country's next ...

Europeans are reconsidering their security and giving currency to an idea the U.S. has long sought to avoid: a nuclear-armed ...

Germany’s political system is set up to exclude extremists. Yet the country is waking up to a new political reality that has ...

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

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

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BERLIN (Reuters) -German election winner Friedrich Merz's conservatives and the Social Democrats (SPD) have concluded ...

Merz, the likely next chancellor of Germany, has warned that Europe can no longer count on the U.S., which he said had become "largely indifferent" to the continent's fate. His comments follow the ...