By Andreas Rinke and Matthias Williams BERLIN (Reuters) -Election winner Friedrich Merz on Tuesday ruled out a quick reform ...

Germany's election winner Friedrich Merz wants to form a government quickly in order to revive a moribund economy, hike ...

The next German government faces calls to loosen borrowing rules, slash energy costs and spur innovation. It won’t be easy.

Germany’s election continues a slump for left-leaning parties in affluent countries, often connected to immigration and the ...

Germany faces its second change of leader in less than four years after the head of the center-right opposition won Sunday’s ...

Friedrich Merz is on course to become post-World War II Germany’s 10th chancellor, the culmination of a yearslong political ...

Germany’s mainstream conservatives have won the country’s national election, while a far-right party surged to become the ...

The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) came in second, doubling its result from last time. Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democratic Party (SPD) lost a lot, their coalition partner the Greens a ...

Friedrich Merz said that Europe needed to “achieve independence from the United States, step by step.” That won’t be easy, ...

Of all three former governing parties, the Greens performed best in the recent general election. But they have still landed ...

Germany’s conservative Christian Democrat-led bloc secured 208 out of 630 seats in the lower house of parliament, meaning its ...

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