The first step towards Mr Merz being effective on the European stage is for him to forge a coalition with the centre-left ...

Mr Merz revealed plans for two changes to the debt brake, a constitutional provision in place since 2009 that lets the ...

Berlin may have found a way to rearm despite balanced-budget restraints.

Berlin may have found a way to rearm despite balanced-budget restraints.

The surge followed an agreement led by Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz that would largely exempt defence spending from ...

Germany needs a new government fast. The center-right and center-left are set to hammer out an agreement by Easter, but there are several sticking points.

The two political parties expected to form the next German government have agreed to loosen the country’s constitution ...

Germany is the latest European country to shift to the right, following last weekend’s elections.  Economic decline is a big ...

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen wants to be up to the task and has proposed an 800 billion euro (£651 ...

Germany has finally decided to join the party – but Europe may come to regret it. After two decades of limited borrowing and ...

European Union leaders are holding emergency talks on ways to quickly increase their military budgets after the Trump ...

BRUSSELS—Facing the possibility of a fundamental disengagement under US President Donald Trump, European Union leaders opened a day of emergency summit talks Thursday to beef up their own military ...