The agreement reached with the Greens would allow Germany to spend up to €1 trillion on defence and infrastructure over the ...

Five days after parliamentary elections on February 23, the leaders of the two political parties in talks to form a coalition – Friedrich Merz, president of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU ...

Friedrich Merz, leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), speaking during a press conference the day after the elections, 24 February 2025 ...

He now faces the task of building a coalition government between the CDU and likely two other parties, needed to achieve a majority. Merz, like other party leaders, has vowed never to partner with ...

The main crude distillation unit at the refinery, CDU-6, caught fire in the attack and the plant has fully suspended oil processing, the sources said. Rosneft, which owns the plant, did not ...

After underperforming in the vote, the CDU/CSU will depend on a coalition partner of partners to govern. Still, having vowed not to work with the second-place AfD, Merz may have limited room to ...

In Germany, Friedrich Merz is set to become the next German chancellor after his conservative CDU party placed first in Sunday’s election. Merz said Germany and Europe must achieve independence ...

The CDU/CSU received approximately 28.5% of votes in Sunday’s election, coming in close to the 30% support estimated ahead of the polls. This will put them in first place, but their victory is ...

BERLIN (Reuters) -Germany's opposition conservatives CDU/CSU won the national election on Sunday, putting leader Friedrich Merz on track to be the next chancellor while the far-right Alternative ...

Germany's top opposition leader Friedrich Merz is set to become the country's next leader after exit polls in the federal election held Sunday show his centre-right CDU party unassailably in front.

Kelly Ortberg, Boeing's CEO, said Elon Musk was helping "in a big way" with the company's delayed Air Force One planes. "He's a brilliant guy, so he's able to pretty quickly ascertain the ...