Germany's Greens may refuse to back plans by likely next chancellor Friedrich Merz for a massive increase in state borrowing, ...

For the third time in its modern history, Germany faced the prospect of early elections. With the Free Democratic Party (FDP) ...

At the end of a historic week for Germany, which started with the announcement of a €500bn investment fund, changes to the ...

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

Election winner Friedrich Merz's conservative CDU, its Bavarian sister party CSU, and the Social Democrats (SPD) have taken a major step toward forming a coalition government, the heads of the parties ...

At a summit in Brussels on Thursday, EU leaders backed plans to spend more on defence amid fears that Russia, emboldened by ...

An initial outline of a possible coalition deal between Germany's centre-right Christian Democrats (CDU) and the centre-left ...

Germany's chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz has promised to "massively expand border controls" once the country's next ...

The preliminary policy agreement that will form the basis for coalition talks was "no mean feat", said Friedrich Merz.

Austria will not accept asylum seekers turned back at the German border, the Interior Ministry in Vienna told dpa on Sunday ...

The topic of Ukraine is mentioned in an 11-page document submitted the day before by the Christian Democratic Union/The ...

Both require a supermajority in the German parliament to modify the so-called “debt brake”, requiring in turn the backing of ...