Three years ago Merz returned from the political wilderness to secure the leadership of the centre-right Christian Democratic ...

Conservative leader Friedrich Merz has won a parliament vote to become Germany's next chancellor at the second attempt. Merz ...

Conservative leader scrapes together just enough votes to claim Germany’s top job — but he’s weakened already.

Mr Merz’s commitment to restoring a long-absent German voice to European and international debates is not in doubt, and he ...

The unprecedented bombshell Bundestag vote on Tuesday that briefly paused the confirmation of Friedrich Merz as Germany’s new ...

Merz was six votes short of being elected by the majority of Germany’s 630 parliamentarians. His coalition, which consists of ...

In an extraordinary day of political turbulence in Berlin, Friedrich Merz, the long-time leader of Germany’s Christian ...

BERLIN – Friedrich Merz will make a second attempt to be confirmed as German chancellor by the parliament on Tuesday after ...

Wolfgang Schröder, 60 years old, professor of political science at the University of Kassel, is among the most listened-to ...

Conservative leader Friedrich Merz ‘s bid to become Germany ‘s 10th chancellor since the second World War failed in the first ...

The Bundestag elected CDU leader Friedrich Merz as Chancellor of Germany on the second attempt. The previous vote ended in ...

German stocks fell and bund yields rose after Friedrich Merz failed to secure a Bundestag majority, marking a historic ...