Berlin seals a deal to ramp up defense spending indefinitely.

Optimism was already building among economists on German and euro zone growth in a Reuters poll taken just before key ...

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

The likely next chancellor has staked his government on a move to increase military spending. But the window for change is ...

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The German chancellor-in-waiting said he would like talks with France and Britain about sharing weapons, but not as a ...

BERLIN (Reuters) -Germany's Greens vowed to block plans by likely next chancellor Friedrich Merz for a massive increase in ...

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

Mr Merz’s conservatives and the Social Democrats are in negotiations to form a government after February's election. Read ...

A new deal with the Greens could allow for as much as €1 trillion in new spending for defense and infrastructure over the ...

German Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz announced Friday his conservatives had struck a deal with the Greens on massively ...

By Andreas Rinke, Holger Hansen and Sarah Marsh BERLIN (Reuters) -German Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz said on Friday ...