While he argues that Germany’s debt at just 62% of GDP is very low compared to peers, Merz insists that the country’s constitutionally enshrined brake on borrowing shouldn’t be compromised.

Germany’s Social Democrat Chancellor Olaf Scholz and his rival in the Feb. 23 election, Christian Democrat Friedrich Merz, are bringing their campaigns to the World Economic Forum in Davos ...

Friedrich Merz after failing to be elected as chancellor at the Bundestag, Berlin, May 6, 2025. AP/Markus Schreiber. ... 2025 at Davos, Switzerland. Guido Bergmann/Bundesregierung via Getty Images. Mr ...

DAVOS, Switzerland — Germany’s likely next chancellor, Friedrich Merz, wants his country and France to overcome their disputes on EU trade policy. “I am very close to Emmanuel Macron, and we are ...

DAVOS – German conservative opposition leader Friedrich Merz, the front runner in polls to become the next chancellor, on Jan 21 urged a united European stance in talks with US President Donald ...

President Volodymyr Zelensky separately met with German opposition leader Friedrich Merz and Israeli President Isaac Herzog on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos on Jan. 22.

(Bloomberg) -- Friedrich Merz, the frontrunner to become chancellor after Germany’s snap election next month, will take his campaign pitch to the World Economic Forum next week.Most Read from ...

CEOs at Davos feel ready, even heady, for Trump 2.0. At the World Economic Forum, ... “The predictability of this president has always been clear,” declared Friedrich Merz, ...

Friedrich Merz was prematurely introduced as Germany’s chancellor at the Munich Security Conference last weekend — and proceeded to talk like he was already Europe’s economic leader. The 69-year-old ...

At Davos, the T-word lurks menacingly in the background amid concerns of a ‘fracturing’ world. ... Seeming to echo Zelenskiy, German opposition leader Friedrich Merz, ...