Already, Merz has pledged to increase defense spending and put Paris, Warsaw, and London at the lead of a new policy to shore ...

Compared to last October, the vote for the CDU/CSU is down slightly vis a vis the polls, the AfD have not rallied as much as ...

Paul Hockenos is a journalist and author based in Berlin. His most recent book is “Berlin Calling: A Story of Anarchy, Music, ...

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

Friedrich Merz is on course to become post-World War II Germany’s 10th chancellor, the culmination of a yearslong political ...

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

Negotiators from German election winner Friedrich Merz’s conservative bloc and the center-left Social Democrats have started ...

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

Friedrich Merz’s reluctance to reform the debt brake and flirtation with the far-right have come back to bite him.

Provisional results confirm that mainstream conservatives led by Friedrich Merz won Germany's national election, while a ...

Merz expressed concern over changing relations with Washington under the Trump administration, emphasizing the need for ...

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