German conservatives, centre-left agree in principle to form government
Saturday, 8 March 2025 Germany's conservative election winner Friedrich Merz came a step closer on Saturday towards forming a government which he has pledged will revive Europe's top economy and its armed forces with massive new spending. The likely future governing allies have already surprised European partners with their plan to spend hundreds of billions of euros to revive the ailing economy and rebuild the military.
The German conservatives of Friedrich Merz and the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) reveal that they have reached an in-principle agreement to form a government that plans to invest heavily in reviving and rearming Europe's largest economy. Merz, who won Germany's February 23 election, says...
Saturday, 8 March 2025
