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

By Andreas Rinke, Holger Hansen and Sarah Marsh BERLIN (Reuters) -German Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz said on Friday ...

The agreement between centrist parties, led by the likely next chancellor, Friedrich Merz, was billed as a response to ...

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

Germany's likely next chancellor, Friedrich Merz, on Friday hailed a cross-party agreement on a landmark infrastructure and ...

Talk of replacing the American nuclear umbrella over Europe with the small British and French nuclear armories is in the air, ...

Berlin seals a deal to ramp up defense spending indefinitely.

European stocks saw a rally, led by German equities, after political parties in Germany agreed on increased state borrowing.

The deal follows several days of often acrimonious debate during which the Greens had threatened to withhold their ...

Long-term strains on Germany's debt limits, combined with the recent shift in U.S. security policy under President Donald ...

US nuclear weapons are still stationed in Germany. But President Donald Trump's pivot away from Europe is weakening shared nuclear deterrence. Could France help out?

Sir Keir Starmer has warned Russian president Vladimir Putin not to “play games” over a ceasefire deal, ahead of a meeting ...