Germany's conservative leader clinches an major financial agreement ahead of a crunch vote in parliament.

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

A new deal with the Greens could allow for as much as €1 trillion in new spending for defense and infrastructure over the ...

German Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz announced Friday his conservatives had struck a deal with the Greens on massively ...

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

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

A German parliamentary coalition has agreed to allocate 3 billion euros (approximately $3.2 billion) in new military aid to ...

The German chancellor-in-waiting said he would like talks with France and Britain about sharing weapons, but not as a ...

Merz's conservatives and the center-left Social Democrats – in talks to form a coalition after February's general election – ...

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Berlin seals a deal to ramp up defense spending indefinitely.

BERLIN — Germany’s chancellor-in-waiting in a fiery Bundestag debate Thursday urged Green lawmakers to pass constitutional ...