Hours after he suffered a historic defeat, Friedrich Merz was elected as German chancellor on Tuesday. The leader of the center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) had been widely expected to win ...

Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz has hit a snag in his attempt to form Germany's new government. Friedrich Merz has failed in his first attempt to become the Federal Republic's 10th chancellor on ...

Friedrich Merz (R), leader of Germany's conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU), is greeted after being elected as ...

Friedrich Merz has succeeded in his bid to become the next German chancellor during a second vote in parliament, hours after he suffered a historic defeat in the first round.

Friedrich Merz was elected Germany's Chancellor after winning 325 votes in a second-round Bundestag vote on May 6. In a ...

Germany’s new chancellor, Friedrich Merz, increasingly pitches himself as a pragmatist akin to Angela Merkel. But his mantra ...

Friedrich Merz takes office as Germany’s new chancellor under a cloud of uncertainty. With internal dissent, a surging far ...

Significantly, Merz began his speech by praising the pro-war and rearmament policies of his predecessor, Olaf Scholz (SPD).

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz defended his government's new migration policy on Saturday, saying it remains in line with ...

US President Donald Trump’s secretary of state Marco Rubio accused the German state of “tyranny in disguise”, further ...

Germany’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its sister party, the Christian Social Union (CSU)—collectively known as the ...

Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s government is easing Germany’s stance against nuclear energy in European Union policy discussions ...