At the Tegernsee summit, business leaders urged Germany's new government to turn campaign promises into reality.

Germany's new Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Wednesday urged the West not to be divided on Ukraine and said he was working to ensure unity between allies in Europe and the United States on how to end the war.

TOM KREBS is Professor of Economics at the University of Mannheim, member of the German Minimum Wage Commission, and former Senior Adviser at the German Finance Ministry.

Friedrich Merz, a conservative Christian Democrat, became Germany’s next chancellor after a surprising setback in parliament delayed him from taking office.

The suspects, two men and one woman, were detained in separate operations in the western city of Cologne, the southern city of Konstanz and in Switzerland. All three are Ukrainian nationals and are being held on suspicion of espionage and preparing acts of sabotage.

Germany faces a pension crisis as baby boomers retire, straining the intergenerational contract. Labor Minister Bärbel Bas proposes including civil se

Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s coalition is weighing how to confront the Alternative for Germany party, which has been rising in the polls.

The new German government does not expect the European Union's debt rules to put the brakes on the country's planned spending spree, German Finance Minister Lars Klingbeil said on Monday.