As soon as the election commission summed up the official results of the Bundestag elections, their triumphant Friedrich Merz made it clear to the acting Chancellor Olaf Scholz that in the coming ...

The Franco-German partnership, historically central to key decisions in Brussels, has been strained over the past three years ...

Merz faces an aging population that’s set to hold back growth and exacerbate strains on the federal budget and social security system.

Germany’s chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz has opened talks with the Social Democrats to quickly approve as much as €200 ...

European shares were flat on Tuesday as defence stocks climbed, offsetting declines in technology stocks that came on the back of worries over an intensifying U.S.-China technology war.