Berlin — In a landmark shift, Germany is set to embark on its most ambitious defense spending initiative since World War II. Lawmakers have embraced plans unveiled by Friedrich Merz, soon to ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. German opposition leader and Christian Democratic Union party chairman Friedrich Merz speaks during a debate ...

The deal is a personal victory for Friedrich Merz, Germany's chancellor-in-waiting Germany's conservative leader, Friedrich Merz, has clinched an enormous financial package to revamp defence and ...

Germany's Greens on Monday threatened to block a plan to ease the debt brake and funnel hundreds of billions of euros to defense and infrastructure spending. The plan put forward by Germany's ...

Thank you for reading. Outgoing Chancellor Olaf Scholz has praised Germany's "historic" decision to lift limits on strict borrowing rules which will allow the country to massively increase ...

The UEFA Nations League continues this international break with Italy facing Germany in the quarterfinals. / IMAGO/Schuler Italy takes on Germany in the UEFA Nations League quarterfinals as both ...

Germany's new parliament sits for the first time on Tuesday with a reduced headcount, fewer women and a record number of lawmakers from the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD). HELMUT KOHL'S ...

Effectively, Germany lawmakers could borrow whatever sums the government bond market would allow to fund those items. Image Trains outside Frankfurt’s main station last year. The proposed change ...

It will also enable usually fiscally conservative Germany to create a €500 billion ($545 billion) fund for infrastructure. Robin Winkler, a senior economist at Deutsche Bank, called the debt ...

BERLIN — Germany's would-be next chancellor, Friedrich Merz, won lawmakers' approval Tuesday for ambitious plans to loosen the nation's strict debt rules for higher defense spending as doubts ...

Nowhere is that shift as prominent as in Germany. Its armed forces, known as the Bundeswehr, have been the victim of years of underinvestment – but that is set to change. Presumptive Chancellor ...