Having led his party, the Christian Democrats, to first place in Germany’s election last month, Mr. Merz swiftly assumed the ...

The first step towards Mr Merz being effective on the European stage is for him to forge a coalition with the centre-left ...

The parties hoping to form Germany's next government have agreed to create a 500 billion euro infrastructure fund and ...

Already, Merz has pledged to increase defense spending and put Paris, Warsaw, and London at the lead of a new policy to shore ...

The government will be led by the centre-right People’s Party (OVP) and its 64-year-old interim leader Christian Stocker. A ...

European countries have intensified talks on sending peacekeepers to Ukraine to monitor and enforce a possible ceasefire.

Friedrich Merz is on track to become the ... has put pressure on the liberal approach Germany has stuck to since the Second World War. Merz's opposition to this first emerged in his early ...

Australia has so far been content to bend and gently adjust to the Trump 2.0 whirlwind. It will inevitably have to decide where it can draw the line. As Donald Trump and his administration set about ...

Despite heated rhetoric, the transatlantic alliance between the United States and Europe remains the foundation of global ...

Australia has so far been content to bend and gently adjust to the Trump 2.0 whirlwind. It will inevitably have to decide ...

After a five-month wait, the Alpine nation's new government is set to be sworn in after the third member of a proposed ...

The debt brake was passed in 2009, when a global financial crisis led to sharp increase in government borrowing in Germany and around the world. The debt brake also reflected cultural and political ...