From defence to infrastructure spending to reviving Europe's economic powerhouse, the challenges facing the likely new German Chancellor, Friedrich Merz, are huge. And he says he won't work with the ...

As the Trump administration ramps up its rhetoric against Ukraine and NATO, European countries are taking note — with ...

Merz’s Conservative CDU emerged as the largest party in Sunday’s federal elections, winning 208 seats in the 630-seat German ...

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

When Germans went to the polls on Sunday, February 23, three main issues appeared to be weighing on the public: high energy ...

If Europe’s leaders dare learn the tough lesson Trump is teaching, they will restore national cohesion — which prosperity ...

The Christian Democrats are forming a new coalition, with plans that include a possible restart of nuclear power.

Former Mayer Brown counsel and Blackrock advisor Friedrich Merz is Germany’s presumptive new Chancellor after his Christian ...

Germany faces its second change of leader in less than four years after the head of the center-right opposition won Sunday’s ...

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

The likely next chancellor is unpopular, and his country’s economy has stalled. But his penchant for risks could help lead to ...

Friedrich Merz said that Europe needed to “achieve independence from the U.S., step by step.” That won’t be easy, for Europe ...