True to its Gaullist legacy, France has always been wary of becoming too dependent on the Western world’s great superpower.

While Germany's chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz is already plagued by criticism and sinking poll numbers at home, his EU ...

Germany's conservative Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz unveiled his party's coalition deal with the centre-left Social ...

Germany’s incoming leader Friedrich Merz quickly passed a massive fiscal package, representing a seismic shift for the ...

Germany's likely next chancellor Friedrich Merz strongly condemned a Russian attack in northeastern Ukraine that killed more ...

Berlin (AFP) – Germany's next leader, the conservative Friedrich Merz, vowed Wednesday to "move the country forward again" by boosting the economy and defence as he presented a deal to launch his ...

In first sit-down interviews since securing a deal to form the next German government, Merz lays out his foreign policy ...

By Christopher F. Schuetze Reporting from Berlin Germany’s centrist parties announced on Wednesday that they had formally reached a coalition agreement to allow Friedrich Merz, a conservative ...

European allies cheered the CDU leader's announcement, while a key would-be coalition partner appeared to try to argue ...

The German spending spree was a “hopeful signal” for clean technology start ups, said Victor Van Hoorn, EU director of Cleantech for Europe. But Brussels should focus on simplifying rules for state ...