Germany's conservative opposition leader Friedrich Merz expects little to pass parliament ahead of early elections in ...

The German cabinet has approved a financial measure package to boost startups and ease access to capital markets. Known as the Second Financing for the Future Act, it aims to improve tax conditions ...

Rejigged EU austerity rules – in play for the first time since the pandemic – are now coming back to haunt the bloc’s biggest ...

Friedrich Merz has a good chance of becoming Germany's next chancellor. As the leader of the center-right Christian Democratic Union party (CDU) and the conservative parliamentary group that includes ...

German Economy Minister Robert Habeck wants to change the European Union's laboriously negotiated debt rules, calling them "a security risk" because they are preventing much-needed spending on defence ...

Germany's Social Democratic Party, or SPD, on Monday formally announced Chancellor Olaf Scholz as its top candidate for the upcoming snap election scheduled for Feb 23.

Germany's center-left Social Democrats (SPD) officially nominated Chancellor Olaf Scholz as the party's lead candidate going into the snap federal election on February 23. Scholz's nomination comes ...

New German finance minister Joerg Kukies said on Friday that a moderate and targeted reform of the debt brake, which limits ...

German Finance Minister advocates moderate reforms to manage the debt brake, balancing budget discipline with growth amid geopolitical challenges.

Fiscal and economic policy differences have been blamed for the German government collapsing, but what role did the country’s ...