These safeguards — keeping annual deficits below 1.5 per cent in the long term, and reducing excess debt by at least half a percentage point per year — “bite more” for the likes of Germany, Finland ...

German business morale unexpectedly stagnated in February, a survey showed this week, dealing a difficult hand to a future government following a national election in which parties promised to lift ...

German voters are choosing their new government in an election dominated by worries about the years-long stagnation of Europe’s biggest economy, pressure to curb migration and growing uncertainty over ...

Germany's federal and state government tax revenue rose 8.9% in January from the previous year, the finance ministry said in ...

Friedrich Merz looks poised to form a coalition between his center-right alliance and the center-left Social Democrats, but ...

However, owing to a constitutional amendment brought in by a previous coalition government, public spending in Germany is ...

F RIEDRICH MERZ, who is likely to become Germany’s next chancellor, used his victory in Sunday’s elections to issue a ...

The next German government faces calls to loosen borrowing rules, slash energy costs and spur innovation. It won’t be easy.

Germans have given establishment parties one last chance. Right-wing populists wait on the sidelines. PARIS — The good news ...

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Financial markets rose on the likelihood of a two-party coalition between the CDU/CSU and the SPD, with Germany's benchmark ...

Germany faces its second change of leader in less than four years after the head of the center-right opposition won Sunday’s ...