BERLIN — Friedrich Merz, Germany's likely next chancellor, told POLITICO he's "very worried" the European Union is heading ...

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Interestingly, European stock markets have performed well as of late, even beating the U.S. since the beginning of the year.

Friedrich Merz is on the precipice of becoming Germany’s next chancellor. If successful, his conservatism and quest for new ...

The debt brake, or “Schuldenbremse”, caps the federal government’s new borrowing at 0.35 percent of Germany’s gross domestic ...

The German election could lead to potential reforms of the government debt limit, immigration laws, and green energy ...

In addition, final data from the statistical office Istat confirmed that Italy’s annual inflation rate rose to ... though its leader, Friedrich Merz, has indicated openness to adjusting it. In ...

Merz did not rule out reforming Germany’s debt brake but said that structural reforms particularly in refugee and ...

The Alternative for Germany still has pariah status among other major political parties in a country where far-right politics ...

Germans head to the polls on Sunday in an election that has been impatiently awaited in Brussels, where many hope Berlin can swiftly return to play a driving role in EU affairs as the bloc faces a ...

Sunday's German election may result in a conservative-led coalition government that faces pressure for much-needed change to ...

For Germany, meeting a 3% target would require more than one quarter of the government budget to be spent on defence, ...