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

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

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

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

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

Friedrich Merz fails to secure chancellor majority in Bundestag, delaying Germany’s new government formation and triggering ...

For the first time since the founding of the Federal Republic, two rounds of voting were necessary to elect a chancellor.

Germany’s Friedrich Merz has formally become chancellor at the second attempt, hours after an unprecedented defeat signaled ...

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

Bundestag confirmed Friedrich Merz as Germany's new chancellor in a successful second vote after he unexpectedly lost an ...

Following a failed first vote on Tuesday morning, CDU leader Friedrich Merz has now received 325 of the necessary 316 votes ...

Friedrich Merz did not receive enough votes in the first round of voting in the Bundestag for the future Chancellor of ...