FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Germany's IfW economic institute raised its 2026 growth estimate for Europe's largest economy on Thursday, anticipating tailwinds from a public spending boost that conservative ...

BERLIN - Germany's outgoing lower house of parliament will hold a special session on Thursday to debate a 500 billion euro ...

Germany's likely next leader Friedrich Merz is set to defend his unprecedented plans to massively ramp up defence and infrastructure spending in parliament as lawmakers begin debating the proposals.

Germany's outgoing parliament will convene in a special session to discuss reforming the country's debt brake. The move would ...

Officials in Paris and Berlin are excited about the good relationship incoming German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has with French President Emanuel Macron.

In a country torn between its attachment to the transatlantic link and its hostility to nuclear weapons, Friedrich Merz, the ...

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Under Merz, a one-time fiscal conservative, Germany is ready to lift its debt ceiling and enlarge defence spending in ...

Coalition talks between the CDU and SPD are continuing apace as the parties try to rush major bills on defence and ...

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

The Greens vow to foil the chancellor-in-waiting’s historic plan to invest big in defense and infrastructure. But it may just ...

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