Pressure was on between the center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and the center-left Social Democratic Party (SPD) ...

The chancellor-in-waiting's conservatives have reached a coalition agreement with Germany's Social Democrats, five months ...

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

Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz called on Monday for swift action to secure Germany's competitiveness in response to ...

Friedrich Merz’s new administration promises tax cuts, energy price reductions and a blitz of public-private investment funds ...

Germany’s manufacturing sector faced the ... confirming a technical recession. De la Rubia forecasted a 0.2% contraction for Q3, marking two consecutive quarters of decline.

BERLIN — Germany’s acting finance minister Jörg Kukies warned that U.S. President Donald Trump’s "Liberation Day" tariffs ...

“Germany is getting a government that is capable ... “A possible trade conflict increases the risk of recession, there is no question about that,” Kukies told Deutschlandfunk radio.

If reintroduced after the 90-day hiatus, however, they could plunge Germany back into another recession. The United States was Germany's top trading partner last year and a major market for its ...

Speaking during a news conference, Merz laid out a vision of a Germany restored to its former strength and reliability. “The future government, the future coalition, will reform and invest to ...