In one casual sentence, Friedrich Merz upended Germany’s economic policy. Addressing the debt brake, a strict legal limit on ...

For Chancellor-hopeful Friedrich Merz, the keys to unlocking a new era of prosperity lie in revisiting the policies that ...

A win would give Friedrich Merz the daunting task of rebuilding a German economy that hasn’t grown since 2019—and establish ...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has spoken with Russian President Vladimir Putin in what appeared to be the first conversation ...

Now, Germany faces a vote of confidence in Scholz's government in December and snap elections early next year. Bundestag ...

The hourlong call centered on what German officials said was a push to end the war in Ukraine. It was the first in two years ...

In between settling scores with his erstwhile finance minister during an occasionally hot-tempered speech in the Bundestag this week, Chancellor Olaf Scholz tried to take a conciliatory tone with the ...

"Many traders have taken these insecurities into account and stockpiled orders to keep their warehouses filled in advance", said HHLA’s CEO Angela Titzratz.

Born in 1955 in the west German town of Brilon, Merz studied law and was first elected to the Bundestag in 1994. After ...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke on the phone for an hour on Friday afternoon, a ...

Olaf Scholz, Germany's least popular chancellor on record, is facing growing calls within his Social Democrats (SPD) to step ...