Defence challenge an ‘exceptional’ circumstance where Germany may support EU members taking on common debt – Merz

SDP co-leader Lars Klingbeil set to become vice-chancellor and federal finance minister

Economic analysts suggest economic uncertainty and internal party disagreements could yet dampen voter enthusiasm for the party

Federal coalition government agreement promises full border controls, a tighter asylum approach and expedited deportation of criminal foreign nationals

Friedrich Merz has yet to secure the chancellery but polls show his party on just 25 per cent support

Three-party alliance backs borrowing package of €500 billion for infrastructure projects and an effective blank cheque for defence and security spending

Unprecedented package for defence, climate and infrastructure spending

Is a US-led consortium interested in buying or leasing the pipelines from their Russian owners, or is it ‘a tale from Absurdistan’?

Chancellor-designate faces opposition in his own party and a delicate balance in reconvened Bundestag, which must approve measures

Ursula von der Leyen is taking a scissors to EU’s ‘red tape’ perception

Party doubled its support to win 152 seats in the Bundestag in Sunday’s federal vote

Uncertain outlook in Berlin as man who is likely to be next chancellor has to convince sceptical voters he can deliver change

Friedrich Merz is on track to be the next German chancellor in election where far-right AfD doubled support

Russian agents suspected of stoking anti–Green sentiment with vandalism and bumper stickers of party leader

Worldview: History suggests that such pacts with the devil end badly

US vice-president JD Vance says European leaders ‘running in fear of your own voters’

Ahead of the February 23rd federal election, the party is on 4 per cent in all polls – one point short of the 5 per cent hurdle to enter the Bundestag

As elections approach, leader of the opposition CDU presents voters with a centre-right cocktail that is remixed on a daily basis

Christian Democratic Union leader Friedrich Merz blames chancellor for ‘law and order’ crisis

Friedrich Merz promises a swift crackdown on immigration if elected as chancellor next month following a fatal attack that left two dead in Bavarian city of Aschaffenburg