Recriminations flew in Berlin on Thursday after Chancellor Friedrich Merz's government failed to agree on a nationwide cut in ...

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s ruling coalition rebuffed calls to expand an electricity-tax discount to include households and additional companies, saying they’ll only do so when they have ...

German Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt wants to negotiate a direct agreement with the Taliban on receiving Afghan ...

Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt says direct agreements with Afghanistan ‘enables repatriations’ despite it not being a ...

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An independent commission agreed Germany’s statutory minimum wage should be increased in two steps to €14.60 ($17.11) in 2027 ...

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German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Tuesday waded into a heated debate that is threatening to derail his coalition's draft ...

The German government has announced it was postponing electricity tax cuts for households and small businesses citing budget ...

Increasing Germany’s pure defence spending to 3.5 per cent of GDP is, analysts agree, as historic and far-reaching moment as ex-ECB president Mario Draghi’s “whatever it takes” speech in the euro ...

As expected before the election, this victory positions the CDU/CSU leader, 69-year-old Friedrich Merz, as the likely next chancellor.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has said that supplying Taurus cruise missiles to Ukraine remains "an option" but stressed ...