A bold move by Germany’s prime minister-in-waiting Friedrich Merz to ease longstanding caps on government spending has won ...

Germany's upper house, the Bundesrat, Thursday voted 53-16 to approve a massive defense and infrastructure spending bill. The ...

Germany's would-be next chancellor, Friedrich Merz, won lawmakers' approval to loosen strict debt rules for higher defense ...

Under pressure from Trump and with Russia menacing, Germany's incoming leader plans to revamp the country's defense posture.

Germany's parliament voted Tuesday in favor of incoming chancellor Friedrich Merz's massive debt reform, which will free up ...

German lawmakers have reached an agreement to exempt some defense spending from the nation’s tight rules on running up debt.

With their votes agreeing to a one-billion euro rearmament package, the class character of the Left Party is clearly exposed.

The Bundestag session Thursday amounts to a debate, with the final vote set for Tuesday. The main question looming over it is ...

Merz said the prospective German government's move should be ... while the Left Party opposes it but is skeptical about military spending. Sponsor Message "A politician's greatest asset is ...

But others tempered expectations. The German military spending plan “is really about security,” said Clemens Fuest, an economist who is the president of the ifo Institute in Munich ...