Friedrich Merz passed a major test as the outgoing parliament voted 513-207 in its final meeting to approve the plans.

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

Germany's outgoing Chancellor Olaf Scholz has hailed a multi-billion-euro spending package that passed the Bundestag on ...

The multibillion-euro package loosens borrowing limits and allows new investments in defense, infrastructure and climate. The ...

Germany's outgoing Chancellor Olaf Scholz has hailed a multi-billion-euro spending package that passed the Bundestag on ...

Germany is on track for a sharp increase in military spending that could equip a bigger Bundeswehr—the German military—with ...

German lawmakers gave the green light on Tuesday for a colossal spending boost for defence and infrastructure pushed by ...

An incoming government wants to borrow much more to revamp the economy and rebuild the military. That means a change in the ...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has praised a planned pause in Russian attacks on Ukrainian energy infrastructure as a "first ...

BERLIN - German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and French President Emmanuel Macron reaffirmed on Tuesday that any peace negotiations ...

The controversial legislation pushed by conservative Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz was approved Tuesday in the lower ...

Merz’s CDU/CSU and their likely future coalition partners, the Social Democrats (SPD), plan to exempt defence spending from ...