Under Germany's constitution, Merz needs a two-thirds majority to get the changes passed. With the support of the Greens and ...

German Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz said on Friday he had secured the crucial backing of the Greens for a massive ...

German Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz said on Friday he had secured the crucial backing of the Greens for a massive ...

German Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz was set to make a last-ditch attempt on Friday to convince the Greens of his ...

Friedrich Merz promised tougher measures to tackle illegal migration, including by turning away people at Germany's borders ...

The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) has charged that Friedrich Merz, the country's likely next chancellor, has ...

The likely next chancellor has staked his government on a move to increase military spending. But the window for change is ...

Mr Merz’s conservatives and the Social Democrats are in negotiations to form a government after February's election. Read ...

A new deal with the Greens could allow for as much as €1 trillion in new spending for defense and infrastructure over the ...

From the apparent success of Merz' multi-billion spending proposal to the coming of spring and a potential boycott of US ...

Berlin seals a deal to ramp up defense spending indefinitely.

German Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz announced Friday his conservatives had struck a deal with the Greens on massively ...