The likely next government should have substantial financial leeway, thanks to credit-financed special funds. However, it ...

The conservative CDU/CSU parliamentary group of Christian Democratic (CDU) leader Friedrich Merz intends to propose experienced politician Julia Klöckner to be the next Bundestag president later ...

Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz is set to break years of fiscal stringency to counter the erosion of the transatlantic ...

Germany’s Bundestag, or Lower House of Parliament, passed a historic bill allowing it to sidestep its strict rules on debt to ...

The German chancellor-in-waiting, Friedrich Merz, has won a vote in parliament to allow a huge increase in state borrowing ...

Friedrich Merz, almost assured to be Germany’s next chancellor, is ignoring conventional wisdom when it comes to relations ...

For Altmaier, once dubbed Merkel’s ... once helped protect Germany from Soviet aggression. On stage, Castro described the situation with the new U.S. president dryly: “(Canada) seems ...

On March 13, 2025, a public hearing was held in the budget committee of the German Bundestag on the planned amendment to the ...

Angela Merkel said there is nothing wrong with attempting to understand Vladimir Putin. In an interview with the Berliner Zeitung, the former German chancellor criticized the invasion of Ukraine and ...

Angela Merkel noted that there is nothing wrong with trying to understand Vladimir Putin. In an interview with Berliner ...

a landmark deal to unleash hundreds of billions of euros in new borrowing to bolster Germany’s military and infrastructure, including funds to fight climate change. Back to Merkel’s middle: Merz’s ...

Germany, the pre-eminent European country for the past century, third in world GDP, the biggest economy in Europe and pivotal to the fortunes of the European Union, voted to elect a new parliament ...