Germany's mainstream conservatives led by Friedrich Merz won the country's national election, ensuring that Ukraine has an ...

Laura Pitel Well, the first thing to say is that Merz’s CDU has always been very fiscally hawkish, and their manifesto says that they are opposed to changing the debt brake in any way. That has ...

The French president navigated a White House meeting which came as Europe-US relations are strained over the war.

Merz also said he had a "lengthy" call with Emmanuel Macron late Sunday, as the French president headed to Washington to meet ...