Hours after Friedrich Merz's conservatives won Germany's national election, he sent the outgoing Social Democrat government a ...

Election winner Friedrich Merz said on Friday he was open to reforming Germany's legally prescribed spending limits as his ...

Twenty-five years after the launch of the euro, the European Union faces a serious predicament, with the two largest ...

Negotiators from German election winner Friedrich Merz's conservative bloc and the center-left Social Democrats started ...

The victory of the Christian Democratic leader in the February 23 German parliamentary elections was met with relief by ...

AfD leader Alice Weidel accuses Germany's likely future chancellor Friedrich Merz of "election fraud." She says Merz promised to "close the borders" but did the opposite. Is that true?

Conservative party leader Friedrich Merz is poised to become Germany's next chancellor. He's long been a transatlanticist, but has made clear he's no fan of US President Donald Trump.

Germany’s 2025 election results mark a right-wing shift, reshaping European politics and US-EU relations. As CDU and AfD gain ...

Friedrich Merz, Germany's likely next head of government, is already trying to shape foreign policy. He is especially ...

It’s not just in Britain that defence spending is top of the agenda. In Germany, too, the debate has turned to how the ...

Opposition to the status quo must not be monopolized by the right-wing extremist visions of parties like Alternative für ...

Such talks often drag on for weeks if not months in Germany, but Merz is in a hurry to reach a deal with Europe's biggest economy facing economic malaise and an upheaval in relations with the U.S.