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Germany's IfW economic institute raised its 2026 growth estimate for Europe's largest economy on Thursday, anticipating ...

FILE PHOTO: Friedrich Merz, chancellor-in-waiting and leader of Christian Democratic Union party (CDU), looks on as he ...

Plans for Germany to unleash a massive increase in state borrowing faced new questions on Wednesday, with a co-leader of the ...

Germany's Greens vowed to block plans by likely next chancellor Friedrich Merz for a massive increase in state borrowing to ...

Germany’s Greens say they won't support the prospective next government’s plans to loosen debt rules for defense spending and ...

Nach dem Wahlsieg der Union am 23. Februar hat Unions-Kanzlerkandidat Friedrich Merz sein Wahlversprechen, zu einer ...

Germany’s big-bang spending plans jolted markets, but there are reasons to be skeptical that the impact will be immediate.

Russia's westward push and U.S. indifference towards European worries may trigger a strong economic revival in the region, ...

Even though negotiations to form a coalition have not yet begun, the head of the Christian Democratic Union party, which came ...

In a country torn between its attachment to the transatlantic link and its hostility to nuclear weapons, Friedrich Merz, the ...

Germany's likely next leader Friedrich Merz said Thursday urgent action was needed to boost the country's under-resourced ...