Mr. Merz needed two rounds of voting to become chancellor after a surprising defeat in Parliament hours earlier that ...

Conservative leader Friedrich Merz has been elected as Germany’s chancellor — hours after he failed to win the first round in ...

Friedrich Merz now heads the German government. He has vowed to make foreign policy a top priority, visiting France and ...

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

Chancellor Friedrich Merz has promised a policy change. Respondents to the monthly Deutschlandrend survey seem to have a wait ...

Less than 24 hours after taking office, Germany's new Chancellor Friedrich Merz met with French President Emmanuel Macron in ...

Merz won in a second round of voting after failing to secure an absolute majority in an earlier round.

Friedrich Merz’s bid to become Germany’s 10th chancellor has failed in the first round of voting in parliament by six votes.

Friedrich Merz plunged straight into international crises on his first full day as Germany’s new chancellor Merz urged India ...

His countrymen, he declares, will have to ‘engage’ with the AfD, ‘factually and on substance.’ ...

Friedrich Merz of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) was elected Chancellor of Germany on Tuesday after the second round of ...

China’s president tells new chancellor their countries’ relationship can ‘guide China-EU cooperation in the right direction’.