Conservative and center-left parties reached a deal to form a new German government on Wednesday after weeks of negotiations.

German conservatives under Friedrich Merz clinched a coalition deal with the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) on Wednesday, ...

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Germany’s incoming chancellor, Friedrich Merz, said that his government will turn away asylum seekers at its land borders and promised a “repatriation offensive” against illegal immigrants.

The agreement establishing a coalition government of the Christian Democrats (CDU/CSU) and Social Democrats (SPD) underscores ...

The U.S. president’s tariffs and stance on Ukraine compelled the incoming chancellor to quickly form a stable government ...

German inflation eased to 2.3% in March, the federal statistics office said on Friday, confirming preliminary data.

BERLIN — Germany’s acting finance minister Jörg Kukies warned that U.S. President Donald Trump’s "Liberation Day" tariffs ...

With Trump’s reversal of US support for Ukraine, his “might is right” foreign policy and hostile trade tariffs, Germany and the European Union have begun to reassess their place in the new world order ...

BERLIN, April 18 (Xinhua) -- U.S. tariffs could slash Germany's economic output by as much as 290 billion euros (330 billion U.S. dollars) over four years, the German Economic Institute (IW) has ...

For decades, Berlin has stored around 1,200 tonnes of its gold, valued at approximately €113 billion (£96 billion), at the ...