German's center-right Christian Democratic Union and center-left Social Democrats have reached a deal to form a new German ...

By Andreas Rinke and Matthias Williams BERLIN (Reuters) -German conservatives under Friedrich Merz agreed a coalition deal ...

The substance of the coalition deal, signed less than a week ago, has become a bone of contention — before the government has even been sworn in.

German Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz has unveiled a new coalition deal between the country’s two major centrist ...

The agreement was concluded relatively quickly but still took about six and half weeks, during which the country had been ...

Germany is willing to send Taurus long-range missiles to Ukraine, the country’s chancellor-in-waiting has said, as he ...

The U.S. president’s tariffs and stance on Ukraine compelled the incoming chancellor to quickly form a stable government ...

Friedrich Merz and his conservative Christian Democratic Union must now persuade Germans that he can fix the economy and get ...

The German parliament plans to meet on May 6 to elect Friedrich Merz as the country's next leader, if all the parties in his ...

Friedrich Merz sealed a coalition deal with the Social Democrats, paving the way for the German conservative leader to become ...

Germany's likely next chancellor Friedrich Merz strongly condemned a Russian attack in northeastern Ukraine that killed more ...

Germany's conservative chancellor-in-waiting has cast doubt on some of the commitments he had made to secure a coalition with ...