Because the vote is held by secret ballot, it is not immediately clear — and might never be known — who defected from Merz's ...

In Berlin, Friedrich Merz was elected Germany’s chancellor, but not without a surprising setback. For the first time in ...

Beyond the immediate neighbourhood, positioning Germany towards the US, China and Israel are high on the agenda. In line with ...

Friedrich Merz now heads the German government ... and European integration is no longer a sure-fire thing. No one is creating more challenges for German foreign policy at the moment than Donald Trump ...

Merz won in a second round of voting after failing to secure an absolute majority in an earlier round.

And yet Germany’s leaders have struggled to come to grips with the full dimensions of the crisis. The prior government, a three-party coalition helmed by the center-left Social Democratic Party of ...

Conservative leader Friedrich Merz on Tuesday became Germany’s next chancellor after succeeding to form a coalition with the ...

Mr. Merz needed two rounds of voting to become chancellor after a surprising defeat in Parliament hours earlier that threatened to hobble his new government.

Germany's new chancellor Friedrich Merz signalled a new start in relations with European partners France and Poland, but ...

For the first time in nearly six decades, a member of the center-right Christian Democrat party is leading Germany’s Foreign ...

Friedrich Merz's political career began on the foreign stage. From 1989-1994, he served as a member of European Parliament, focusing on financial policy. Now, as German chancellor three decades ...

Merz wants to change this ... and European integration is no longer a sure-fire thing. No one is creating more challenges for German foreign policy at the moment than Donald Trump. Alongside doubts ...