Beyond the immediate neighbourhood, positioning Germany towards the US, China and Israel are high on the agenda. In line with ...

New German Chancellor Friedrich Merz announced a reset in French-German relations to help Europe overcome the "enormous" ...

Friedrich Merz has made his world-affairs debut as Germany’s new chancellor. Merz plans to immediately team up with allies ...

Germany’s new interior minister says the new government plans to station more police at the border to curb illegal migration ...

Conservatives led by Friedrich Merz remain committed to renewables, but say "we must and we will change" an economic policy ...

In Berlin, Friedrich Merz was elected Germany’s chancellor, but not without a surprising setback. For the first time in Germany’s modern history, he lost the parliament’s initial vote and needed a ...

Merz' appointment ends six months of political deadlock in the country after the collapse of Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s ...

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

Friedrich Merz has secured a majority in the second round of voting at the German Bundestag, averting a constitutional crisis.

Germany’s Friedrich Merz is scrambling to secure his ascension to chancellor, after failing to win over enough lawmakers in an unprecedented and unexpected parliamentary setback on Tuesday. Merz, who ...

Friedrich Merz is poised to become chancellor at a challenging time for Germany. But in a first round of voting in Parliament ...

Germany's conservative leader Friedrich Merz is set to be sworn in as chancellor on Tuesday with a mission to revive the ...