Officials in Paris and Berlin are excited about the good relationship incoming German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has with French President Emanuel Macron.

With Europe experiencing its most devastating war since 1945 and President Donald Trump ripping up the transatlantic alliance ...

In a political climate that has looked to the far right, it is not the progressive voice that is being sought to counter that ...

Under Merz, a one-time fiscal conservative, Germany is ready to lift its debt ceiling and enlarge defence spending in ...

European stocks traded mixed on Tuesday as global markets paused for breath following Monday's sharp losses on Wall Street. Danske Bank said European stocks remain more attractive than their U.S.

Markets are awaiting a fundamental change in China's consumption outlook and for more confidence in the economy after its consumer inflation dropped into negative territory, pressuring the demand ...

Germany’s Friedrich Merz, poised to be his country’s next chancellor, said he thinks the explosive exchange between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and President Trump on Friday resulted from a ...

FILE - Floor leader Friedrich Merz ... Democratic Union election poster is smeared with the world Blackrock, a reference to Merz's former employer, in Berlin, Germany, Thursday, Feb. 20, 2025.

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

Well, of course not. But Germany's accidental chancellor has a crucial role to play in history, like it or not ...

U.S. President Donald Trump is trying to end the Russia-Ukraine war without Europe’s participation (or Ukraine’s) and ...

Opposition to the status quo must not be monopolized by the right-wing extremist visions of parties like Alternative für ...