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 ...

Johann Wadephul caught Berlin off-guard when he endorsed a higher NATO spending target of 5%. Will he be more than just ...

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 ...

BERLIN — Friedrich Merz made his world-affairs debut Wednesday as Germany’s new chancellor, with plans to immediately team up ...

Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s coalition is weighing how to confront ... The fight over the Wels Hall is just one in a series of challenges facing the Social Democrats and their senior partners ...

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 ...

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 ...