Under Germany's constitution, Merz needs a two-thirds majority to get the changes passed. With the support of the Greens and ...

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

An agreement has been reached on plans by German chancellor hopeful Friedrich Merz to massively ramp up public borrowing, a ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Euro zone shares and the euro rallied on Friday following news that German Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich ...

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BERLIN (Reuters) -Germany's Greens vowed to block plans by likely next chancellor Friedrich Merz for a massive increase in ...

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

Germany’s Greens say they won't support the prospective next government’s plans to loosen debt rules for defense spending and ...

Germany’s big-bang spending plans jolted markets, but there are reasons to be skeptical that the impact will be immediate.

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

Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz wants to alter Germany's strict fiscal rules to massively boost defence spending, the Greens are standing in his way.

Even though negotiations to form a coalition have not yet begun, the head of the Christian Democratic Union party, which came ...