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

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

Election winner and Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz is relying on votes from the Greens to push through parliament a ...

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 ...

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

The CDU and SPD, likely coalition partners in Germany's next government, want to relax the debt brake for spending on defense ...

At the end of a historic week for Germany, which started with the announcement of a €500bn investment fund, changes to the ...

At a summit in Brussels on Thursday, EU leaders backed plans to spend more on defence amid fears that Russia, emboldened by ...

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

Germany's Green party opposes likely Chancellor Friedrich Merz's plan to increase state borrowing, potentially derailing a ...

A massive plan to loosen Germany's debt rules and spend hundreds of billions on defence and infrastructure has run into ...