The party said they would not support the conservative chancellor-in-waiting’s paradigm-changing plan to invest massively in ...

Friedrich Merz, who once presented himself as the last line of defence against debt madness, is now set to push Germany’s new ...

A marked moment of political severance came at the end of January, when Friedrich Merz pushed through a non-binding motion on ...

BERLIN – The Greens announced on Monday that they won’t support the debt-funded investment package proposed by Germany’s ...

Losing faith in Washington as a military ally, Berlin wants to rip up the old fiscal orthodoxy. But it’s now a race against ...

Merz expressed concern over changing relations with Washington under the Trump administration, emphasizing the need for ...

But, although he will not become chancellor for some weeks, Friedrich Merz, who won Germany’s election on February 23rd, has ...

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Friedrich Merz's political journey, stance on immigration, leadership style, and economic promises as the potential ...

Forget the back-slapping pol ready to banter about the Bundesliga; Friedrich Merz is a former corporate lawyer who wrote a ...

To immediately free up budgetary leeway to finance his country's rearmament, the incoming chancellor plans to vote in a ...

Der voraussichtliche neue Bundeskanzler Friedrich Merz hat dem Vernehmen nach Gespräche ... Sie erwägen, das neue Paket noch durch den scheidenden Bundestag zu bringen. Es wäre doppelt so ...