The German chancellor-in-waiting, Friedrich Merz, has won a vote in parliament to allow a huge increase in state borrowing ...

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

Yesterday, the German parliament approved a historic amount of debt-funded investment in defence and infrastructure. Over the ...

On the eve of the Bundestag approved the budget changes proposed by the future Chancellor Friedrich Merz to increase spending ...

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

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

Germany's parliament approved plans for a massive spending surge on Tuesday, throwing off decades of fiscal conservatism in ...

Germany’s Bundestag, or Lower House of Parliament, passed a historic bill allowing it to sidestep its strict rules on debt to ...

Germany's chancellor designate Friedrich Merz wants to scrap restraints on borrowing and allow for much higher defence ...

German chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz said Tuesday that his proposed huge spending boost for defence was needed because ...

Germany's likely next chancellor Friedrich Merz has said that the country's new government must be ready to make financial ...

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