Germany now faces weeks to months of negotiations as the conservatives, under presumptive Chancellor-to-be Friedrich Merz, ...

Germany’s mainstream conservatives have won the country’s national election, while a far-right party surged to become the ...

Friedrich Merz is on course to become post-World War II Germany’s 10th chancellor, the culmination of a yearslong political ...

Germany’s political system is set up to exclude extremists. Yet the country is waking up to a new political reality that has ...

Europe must seek to “achieve independence” from the United States, Germany’s likely next chancellor Friedrich Merz said after ...

Friedrich Merz is set to become Germany’s new chancellor after his CDU/CSU bloc secured 28.5% votes, defeating Olaf Scholz’s ...

German election winner Friedrich Merz on Monday faced the task of quickly building a new government that is eagerly awaited ...

Friedrich Merz, likely Germany's next chancellor, said he was under "no illusions" about the White House's impact on ...

Friedrich Merz is set to become the next Chancellor at a time of great tumult at home and abroad, writes John Kampfner.

Merz called for German “independence from the USA” and lashed out at what he described as "ultimately outrageous" rhetoric ...

Friedrich Merz, the new leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and winner of the latest German elections, has raised ...

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