The parties seeking to build a new coalition government under Friedrich Merz are making slow progress in their negotiations.

Incoming Chancellor Friedrich Merz is under growing pressure to win conservative policy concessions as coalition talks hit ...

As the new Bundestag meets for its first session since the election, we give you the rundown of what you need to know — from ...

His conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and their Bavarian allies, the Christian Social Union (CSU), have long seen ...

Working groups for Germany's election-winning conservatives and the centre-left Social Democrats will submit findings on a ...

Friedrich Merz's debt-funded investment package is still facing unknowns, that could sink the legislation and doom his ...

This time it is Friedrich Merz, the supposedly steel-spined conservative who spent years critiquing Angela Merkel’s drift ...

Friedrich Merz, CDU/CSU parliamentary group leader in the Bundestag and CDU federal chairman, makes a statement after the ...

Newly elected Friedrich Merz has proposed nearly €1 trillion in new spending on defense and infrastructure for the sluggish ...

German chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz said Tuesday that his proposed huge spending boost for defence was needed because ...

The center-right and center-left parties have ended their first round of talks on time. Despite news of "good progress," ...

The lower house of the German Parliament voted to bankroll a massive militarization plan as a backstop against Russian ...