The parties seeking to build a new coalition government under Friedrich Merz are making slow progress in their negotiations.

Germany, lagging in its building goals to alleviate a housing shortage, needs to construct 320,000 new apartments each year ...

A future federal government of Christian ... state aid to decarbonise Germany's emission-heavy industry sectors. Regarding the future of the highly debated Buildings Energy Act, also called ...

The parties in talks to form Germany's new government on Tuesday agreed to try to loosen fiscal rules for defence and federal states' spending, and to create a 500 billion euros ($529.95 billion) ...

Conservative winner Friedrich Merz, who must build a coalition government over coming weeks, has a long to-do list to fullfil his promise of building a "Germany we can be proud of again".

Germany's conservative election winner Friedrich Merz vowed to get to work Monday on the arduous task of building a new coalition government, warning "the world isn't waiting for us". Merz has ...