By Andreas Rinke, Vera Eckert and Matthias Williams BERLIN (Reuters) -German election winner Friedrich Merz's conservatives ...

Germany's Greens vowed to block plans by likely next chancellor Friedrich Merz for a massive increase in state borrowing to ...

The party said they would not support the conservative chancellor-in-waiting’s paradigm-changing plan to invest massively in ...

Germany’s Greens say they won't support the prospective next government’s plans to loosen debt rules for defense spending and ...

German election winner Friedrich Merz's conservatives and the Social Democrats (SPD) have concluded preliminary talks towards ...

Germany's CDU, CSU and SPD parties have produced an exploratory paper on their plans on various topics, including migration, ...

The CDU and SPD, likely coalition partners in Germany's next government, want to relax the debt brake for spending on defense and infrastructure. But the Greens said this would not invest enough in ...

The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) has charged that Friedrich Merz, the country's likely next chancellor, has ...

Germany’s “Great Coalitions” are getting smaller. In the (then West German) Federal Republic in the 1980s, the centrist major parties gathered over 85% of the vote between them. In 2025, the former ...

FILE PHOTO: German Chancellor of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), Olaf Scholz and his conservative rival of the Christian ...

Germany's Greens may refuse to back plans by likely next chancellor Friedrich Merz for a massive increase in state borrowing, ...

Climate activists fear the worst when Germany's conservatives and Social Democrats begin to thrash out a joint climate policy ...