Already, Merz has pledged to increase defense spending and put Paris, Warsaw, and London at the lead of a new policy to shore ...

FRIEDRICH Merz, a man who has never held a government role ... “Almost undiplomatic,” was how one European diplomat described ...

PARIS — France is warming up to the possibility of seizing Russian frozen assets to help Ukraine, said an official with ...

Germany's future chancellor Friedrich Merz admitted for the first time that he intended to 'discuss' expanding nuclear ...

Macron proposed opening a "strategic debate" to extend France’s nuclear arsenal to European allies, echoing the historic call from Germany’s likely future chancellor, Friedrich Merz.

Bernstein also estimated that General Motors would be most heavily exposed with a decline of $6.7bn in cash flows for fiscal ...

The FTSE 100 hit a record high today after Sir Keir Starmer held an emergency peace summit in London yesterday. Share prices of UK and European defence companies soared today as the UK and the ...

Forget the back-slapping pol ready to banter about the Bundesliga; Friedrich Merz is a former corporate lawyer who wrote a ...

Having led his party, the Christian Democrats, to first place in Germany’s election last month, Mr. Merz swiftly assumed the ...

But, although he will not become chancellor for some weeks, Friedrich Merz, who won Germany’s election on February 23rd, has ...

FILE - Floor leader Friedrich Merz, left, and Angela Merkel, chairwoman of the Christian Democrats Union party (CDU), cheer after Merz's speech to the delegates of the CDU party convention in ...

CDU leader Friedrich Merz has revealed plans for a new €500 billion special fund aimed at boosting infrastructure and defence spending. Just over a week after his victory in the federal elections, ...