Incoming Germany Chancellor Friedrich Merz has a heavy lift: shake Europe’s economic engine out of stagnation. Markets are ...

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

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

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

Christian Democrats won with their leader, Friedrich Merz, expected to be next chancellor of Germany. But the far right and ...

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 Labour Minister Hubertus Heil and Manuela Schwesig of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) walk following a meeting ...

Liberal nationalists must respond with imagination to US policies rather than gripe at being cut out of Ukraine talks ...

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?

Germany's election reshapes politics, with CDU/CSU leading, but coalition talks crucial for a stable government ...

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

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