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

It has been partly blamed for the country’s inability to tackle underinvestment, and conflict over the rules played a central ...

A marked moment of political severance came at the end of January, when Friedrich Merz pushed through a non-binding motion on ...

The opposition Alternative for Germany (AfD) party may deprive the future "big" coalition led by the likely Chancellor ...

BERLIN – The Greens announced on Monday that they won’t support the debt-funded investment package proposed by Germany’s ...

The party said they would not support the conservative chancellor-in-waiting’s paradigm-changing plan to invest massively in ...

The prospective partners in Germany’s next government say they will seek to loosen the nation’s rules on running up debt to ...

Germany’s Green Party has threatened to torpedo plans put forward by likely incoming chancellor Friedrich Merz to invest ...

But, although he will not become chancellor for some weeks, Friedrich Merz, who won Germany’s election on February 23rd, has ...

The leaders of Germany's conservative bloc and the Social Democrats (SPD) have agreed on a common migration policy that would ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Friedrich Merz, leader of the Christian Democratic Union, CDU, ...

Friedrich Merz's political journey, stance on immigration, leadership style, and economic promises as the potential ...