Germany’s Greens say they won't support the prospective next government’s plans to loosen debt rules for defense spending and ...

How long all of that would take remains to be seen; in the past, it has varied greatly from government to government. In 2017, it took 171 days. Ms. Merkel remained chancellor for 73 days after the ...

German voters go to the polls Sunday to elect a parliament that will determine who runs the country for the next four years.

The prospective partners in Germany’s next government say they will seek to loosen the nation’s rules on running up debt to ...

Merz has warned against more paralysis in Berlin at a time US President Donald Trump is driving head-spinning change, the ...

The two political parties expected to form the next German government have agreed to significantly loosen the country's constitutional restriction on borrowing, enabling 1 trillion euros ($1.08 ...

The good news is that Germany can afford to splurge. At 62% of GDP, the country’s public debt is half that of America’s (see chart), and it is not growing. With a deficit of 2% of GDP and projected ...

German voters are choosing a new government in an election Sunday ... under the glass dome of Berlin's landmark Reichstag building. Germany's electoral system rarely produces absolute majorities ...

Hours after Friedrich Merz's conservatives won Germany's national election, he sent the outgoing Social Democrat government a ...