Friedrich Merz, the incoming chancellor, persuaded lawmakers to let him spend more. Infrastructure will be the first order of ...

President Trump’s trade war adds another challenge to the incoming government’s attempts to revive Europe’s biggest economy.

Schuetze Reporting from Berlin ... the 630 new lawmakers are women, a drop from 35 percent when the last Parliament was formed in 2021. In a country where society has appeared at times reluctant ...