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

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

BERLIN (Reuters) - German Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz was set to make a last-ditch attempt on Friday to convince the ...

The agreement between centrist parties, led by the likely next chancellor, Friedrich Merz, was billed as a response to ...

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

Mr Merz’s conservatives and the Social Democrats are in negotiations to form a government after February's election. Read ...

Germany's constitutional court threw out several challenges by opposition parties against a plan by the prospective coalition ...

Germany's constitutional court dismissed challenges from opposition parties against a significant public spending plan put ...

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

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 ...

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

Germany’s next chancellor, Friedrich Merz, struck a deal to loosen borrowing limits, unleashing €500 billion for defence and infrastructure. Markets surged, while analysts debated its impact on ...