Friedrich Merz promised tougher measures to tackle illegal migration, including by turning away people at Germany's borders ...

The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) has charged that Friedrich Merz, the country's likely next chancellor, has ...

Germany's likely next leader Friedrich Merz said Thursday urgent action was needed to boost the country's under-resourced ...

German election winner Friedrich Merz's conservatives and the Social Democrats (SPD) have concluded preliminary talks towards ...

Germany's likely next leader Friedrich Merz is set Thursday to defend his unprecedented plans to massively ramp up defence ...

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

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

Germany's Green party opposes likely Chancellor Friedrich Merz's plan to increase state borrowing, potentially derailing a ...

On Monday, Green leaders upped the ante, vowing to reject the paradigm-shifting deal Merz and his conservative alliance struck with the center-left Social Democratic Party (SPD) to potentially unleash ...

Greens leaders on Monday said they would urge lawmakers in the party to reject a historic deal by Merz’s conservatives and the center-left Social Democratic Party (SPD) to unleash hundreds of billions ...

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Germany’s conservative bloc and the Social Democrats agreed to deepen talks over forming a new government, a step forward as ...