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.

Vice President J.D. Vance and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth fanned out to European capitals this month delivering what ...

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

At the same time, the CDU leader pointed out that "articles 4 and 5 of the NATO Treaty concerning consultation and assistance ...

President Donald Trump has a plan to save Europe, and the results of Sunday’s election in Germany show it’s working. The center-right Christian Democrats won the most seats in the Bundestag, and the ...

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

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?

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

Germany's Labour Minister Hubertus Heil and Manuela Schwesig of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) walk following a meeting ...

The hundreds of billions of euros figures kicking around are between one-third and four-fifths of the entire United States ...

Negotiators from German election winner Friedrich Merz’s conservative bloc and the center-left Social Democrats have started ...

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