The chief of Italian bank UniCredit is continuing a push to tie up with Commerzbank, writing letters last month to German ...

The CEO of UniCredit renewed his push to merge the Italian bank with its German rival Commerzbank , attempting to make his ...

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Tuesday defended his administration's policy on border controls amid growing criticism ...

Conservative leader says he told Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu that Israel will lose its best friends if they continue ...

BERLIN (Reuters) -Germany wants to retain the EU's Schengen area which allows free movement but that can only work if it is ...

Nuclear deterrence cooperation between France and Germany is a matter for the "very, very long term," German Chancellor ...

The incoming German chancellor campaigned as a debt hawk. Then a source told him about Trump’s plans for NATO.

Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s €46 billion ($53 billion) package of tax breaks was approved by Germany’s lower house of ...

Friedrich Merz won a second-chance vote to become Germany’s chancellor on Tuesday afternoon, rebounding from a morning defeat in Parliament that threatened to hobble the next government before ...

Merz, who just months ago responded to the administration’s hostile approach toward Europe by asserting that the continent needed to gain “independence” from the U.S., repeated to Trump that he needed ...

Friedrich Merz, chancellor candidate of Germany's Christian Democrats, reacts following the announcement of initial results in snap federal parliamentary elections Feb. 23, 2025, in Berlin, Germany.

BERLIN, May 6 (Reuters) - German conservative leader Friedrich Merz failed to secure enough parliamentary votes to become chancellor on Tuesday in a major blow that threw politics in Europe's ...