"Whatever it takes" appears to be the motto of the Christian Democrats and Social Democrats, who are expected to form Germany's new government. They are set to reform borrowing limits to allow for ...

By Satyaki Chakraborty The polarization in German politics widened after national elections on Sunday, February 23 in which ...

The parties hoping to form Germany's next government agreed to create a 500 billion euro infrastructure fund and overhaul ...

Friedrich Merz has a reputation for being tough on China, but the need to accommodate a coalition partner and headwinds from ...

A provision would exempt defence spending above 1% of GDP from debt brake rules, enabling Germany to increase military ...

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

Friedrich Merz, the leader of the Christian Democrats, has ruled out a coalition with the far-right Alternative for Germany ...

Germany's government-in-waiting unveiled a plan to boost defense spending by hundreds of billions of dollars by the end of ...

Preliminary talks between Germany's CDU and SPD have yielded an early result, with the parties agreeing on a special fund to boost defense spending, freed from the "debt brake." ...

Germany's potential future governing parties - the CDU/CSU and SPD - have reached a landmark agreement on new borrowing for ...

Germany’s likely next chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Tuesday that his centre-right CDU/CSU and the centre-left Social ...

Germany’s recent election must be understood in the context of broader geopolitical changes. For the first time in Germany’s ...