Merz confirmed today that talks are being held over a new extra-budgetary fund for the military, essentially a copy of the €100 billion fund created in 2022 to bypass debt brake rules. Bloomberg has ...

The conservative CDU led by Friedrich Merz won Germany's 2025 election. With vote counting finished, preliminary results show ...

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 ...