Germany’s acting chancellor Olaf Scholz was set to bow out of office on Friday evening with a special “grand tattoo” military ...

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

Friedrich Merz was expected to win the vote to become Germany's chancellor smoothly. No candidate in postwar Germany had failed to win on the first ballot.

The new German government took office on Tuesday under the leadership of Chancellor Friedrich Merz, less than three months ...

German conservative leader Friedrich Merz on Tuesday failed to be elected the country's next chancellor in a first round of ...

Germany's lower house of parliament on Tuesday convened for the election of Friedrich Merz as the country's new chancellor.

German conservative leader Friedrich Merz was elected by lawmakers as the country's 10th chancellor on Tuesday, hours after ...

In Germany's past, Bavaria's State Premier Markus Söder ... Background: Pistorius is the only member of outgoing Chancellor Olaf Scholz's cabinet to take part in the new government as one of ...

Leader of the Christian Democrats Friedrich Merz hugs Alexander Dobrindt from the Christian Social Union in Bavaria after being ... Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s center-left Social Democrats join ...

Friedrich Merz is set to be elected Germany's new chancellor on Tuesday, as his new administration takes office hoping to ...

prolongs the half-year of political paralysis that has prevailed in Berlin since the collapse of the coalition government of Olaf Scholz. Merz had hoped in the secret ballot to win the required ...