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

EXCLUSIVE: Germany's plan to bypass its newly elected Bundestag to lift the Debt Brake has sparked outrage, with critics ...

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

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

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

From the apparent success of Merz' multi-billion spending proposal to the coming of spring and a potential boycott of US ...

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

of which 100 billion euros will be spent by the governments of Germany's 16 states. In addition, states will themselves be allowed to borrow up to 0.35% of GDP above the debt brake - giving them ...

Germany’s likely next chancellor, Friedrich Merz, has announced a deal to drastically overhaul the country’s debt rules to allow a boom in defence and security spending as well as 500 billion euros ...

German Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz was set to make a last-ditch attempt on Friday to convince the Greens of his ...

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

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