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 Tuesday for ambitious plans to loosen the ...

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

The German federal polls have closed, and the exit polls appear to have handed the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) a victory.

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

The likely next chancellor of Germany, Friedrich Merz, announced on Friday, March 14, that he had secured enough votes to ...

Chancellor-in-waiting uses outgoing Bundestag to loosen debt brake and unleash investments in defence and infrastructure ...

Friedrich Merz faces a host of political, economic and foreign policy challenges as he puts together a working coalition ...

By Steven Erlanger and Christopher F. Schuetze Friedrich Merz, the man who is almost certain to be Germany’s next chancellor, is a conservative businessman who has never been a minister and was ...

The results almost certainly mean the country’s next chancellor will be Friedrich ... the top party in a German election, and the second-lowest showing ever for Mr. Merz’s party in a ...