German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Thursday defended his government's decision to retain electricity tax for most businesses ...

Recriminations flew in Berlin on Thursday after Chancellor Friedrich Merz's government failed to agree on a nationwide cut in ...

Friedrich Merz's stance against displaying the rainbow flag at the German parliament for the upcoming Christopher Street Day ...

BERLIN (Reuters) -German Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt wants to negotiate a direct agreement with the Taliban on ...

The EU has until Wednesday next week to reach a deal or see swingeing US tariffs kick in on a majority of its goods.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s ruling coalition rebuffed calls to expand an electricity-tax discount to include households and additional companies, saying they’ll only do so when they have ...

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Tuesday waded into a heated debate that is threatening to derail his coalition's draft ...

Increasing Germany’s pure defence spending to 3.5 per cent of GDP is, analysts agree, as historic and far-reaching moment as ex-ECB president Mario Draghi’s “whatever it takes” speech in the euro ...

Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Tuesday endorsed Israel’s airstrikes on Iran, saying it was doing essential work for Germany and ...

The ruling parties of German politics seem to have run out of ideas on how to sway voters away from the growing Alternative for Germany movement.

The incoming German chancellor campaigned as a debt hawk. Then a source told him about Trump’s plans for NATO.