Twenty-five years after the launch of the euro, the European Union faces a serious predicament, with the two largest ...

Incoming Germany Chancellor Friedrich Merz has a heavy lift: shake Europe’s economic engine out of stagnation. Markets are ...

Election winner Friedrich Merz said on Friday he was open to reforming Germany's legally prescribed spending limits as his ...

The victory of the Christian Democratic leader in the February 23 German parliamentary elections was met with relief by ...

The statements piled up on social media, offering words of encouragement to the Ukrainian leader and his people.

Germany’s 2025 election results mark a right-wing shift, reshaping European politics and US-EU relations. As CDU and AfD gain ...

Such talks often drag on for weeks if not months in Germany, but Merz is in a hurry to reach a deal with Europe's biggest economy facing economic malaise and an upheaval in relations with the U.S.

Conservative party leader Friedrich Merz is poised to become Germany's next chancellor. He's long been a transatlanticist, but has made clear he's no fan of US President Donald Trump.

BERLIN (AP) — European leaders pledged late Friday to stand by Ukraine in the wake of the contentious Oval Office meeting ...

It’s not just in Britain that defence spending is top of the agenda. In Germany, too, the debate has turned to how the ...

German election winner Friedrich Merz's conservatives and outgoing Chancellor Olaf Scholz's Social Democrats (SPD) held "open ...

AfD leader Alice Weidel accuses Germany's likely future chancellor Friedrich Merz of "election fraud." She says Merz promised to "close the borders" but did the opposite. Is that true?