Germany's would-be next chancellor, Friedrich Merz, won lawmakers' approval to loosen strict debt rules for higher defense ...

The German chancellor-in-waiting, Friedrich Merz, has won a vote in parliament to allow a huge increase in state borrowing that is set to super-charge the country’s military spending.

Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz's conservatives and the centre-left Social Democrats, currently in talks to form a government following last month's election, had proposed a 500-billion-euro ...

An incoming government wants to borrow much more to revamp the economy and rebuild the military. That means a change in the country’s Constitution — and its culture.

German trade associations say a multi-billion-euro spending package that passed the Bundestag earlier on Tuesday comes with ...

Germany's would-be next chancellor, Friedrich Merz, won lawmakers' approval Tuesday for ambitious plans to loosen the ...

Despite a huge setback in Germany's federal election, the Green Party has secured a victory to the tune of billions of euros.

German 10-year borrowing costs could rise to 4%, their highest since 2008, in coming years as it massively increases its spending on defence and infrastructure, French bank BNP Paribas said on Tuesday ...

The vote to unleash borrowing for the military and Ukraine is a “first major step towards a new European defense community,” says incoming chancellor Friedrich Merz.

The German government for years concealed an assessment by its Foreign Intelligence Service that a lab origin of COVID-19 was ...

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

The large package of measures, aimed at waiving Germany's debt rules for defense spending and setting up an infrastructure ...