Friedrich Merz, leader of the German conservatives, has failed to win election as chancellor in a first round of voting by ...

GERMANY’S new Chancellor Friedrich Merz has finally been confirmed by the country’s parliament just hours after losing a ...

In the second round of voting, Friedrich Merz won the required number of votes to be elected Chancellor of Germany. — ...

Friedrich Merz receives 325 votes in the second round of voting, hours after a shock defeat in the first ballot.

Merz said he will declare a national emergency in order to carry out more border controls and deportations. The move has been ...

Merz had expected to win the votes of at least 316 of the 630 votes in the lower house of parliament, but he was backed by ...

Christian Democratic Union leader Friedrich Merz will visit the Elysée for his first trip abroad on Wednesday. Emmanuel ...

Friedrich Merz's bid to become Germany's next chancellor faced a setback as he failed to secure a majority in the Bundestag's ...

Friedrich Merz succeeded in his bid to become the next German chancellor during a second vote in parliament, hours after he ...

Germany's new Chancellor Friedrich Merz congratulated "His Holiness Pope Leo XIV" on being elected to head the Catholic ...

Germany's newly sworn-in Chancellor Friedrich Merz is aiming for a "restart" of relations with France and Poland, he told ...