Election winner Friedrich Merz on Tuesday ruled out a quick reform to Germany's state borrowing limits known as the "debt ...

An election win for Germany's conservatives has eased concerns of political gridlock in Europe's biggest economy, though it ...

The outcome of Germany’s election makes a coalition between the CDU/CSU and the SPD likely, allowing for a rapid coalition ...

Omid Nouripour, a member of the Bundestag for the Alliance 90/The Greens, discusses the German election outcome and ...

The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) and the Left Party jointly secured one third of seats in the new parliament, ...

Germany has the world's third-largest economy, but is struggling to kickstart growth. It's one of the issues facing voters in ...

Friedrich Merz’s reluctance to reform the debt brake and flirtation with the far-right have come back to bite him.

However, owing to a constitutional amendment brought in by a previous coalition government, public spending in Germany is ...

Laura Pitel Well, the first thing to say is that Merz’s CDU has always been very fiscally hawkish, and their manifesto says that they are opposed to changing the debt brake in any way. That has ...

The US and Europe battled in the UN and G7 over whether to blame Russia for its war against Ukraine, German election winner Friedrich Merz faces serious hurdles to boosting defence spending, and Apple ...

Compared to last October, when it became apparent that an election would be called, the vote for the CDU/CSU is down slightly vis a vis the polls, the AfD have not ...

Reports that the three German centrist parties are trying to lift the country's debt brake -- before the new parliament goes into effect -- has changed Deutsche Bank's view on the euro, as their ...