Germany’s likely next chancellor on Thursday urged outgoing members of parliament to exempt some defense spending from the ...

German lawmakers have reached an agreement to exempt some defense spending from the nation’s tight rules on running up debt.

Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz urged sceptical lawmakers on Thursday to back his proposals for a massive increase in ...

Germany’s chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz reached an agreement with the Greens party on a fiscal reform package for ...

Optimism was already building among economists on German and euro zone growth in a Reuters poll taken just before key ...

German conservative leader Friedrich Merz reached a tentative agreement with the Green party on a debt-funded spending ...

Germany's conservative leader and would-be next chancellor Friedrich Merz has agreed what amounts to a fiscal policy ...

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

Friedrich Merz and his prospective coalition partner the SPD’s plan to boost infrastructure spending and soften the debt ...

Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz wants to alter Germany's strict fiscal rules to massively boost defence spending, the Greens are standing in his way.

FRANKFURT: European stocks rallied on Friday, with German equities leading gains after the country’s political parties agreed ...

The euro rallied on Friday on rising prospects that German parties will agree a historic fiscal deal that could boost defence ...