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Friedrich Merz succeeded in his bid to become the next German chancellor during a second vote in parliament, hours after he ...
Mr. Merz needed two rounds of voting to become chancellor after a surprising defeat in Parliament hours earlier that ...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky spoke to new German Chancellor Friedrich Merz by telephone on Thursday, in what he ...
German conservative leader Friedrich Merz failed to secure enough parliamentary votes to become chancellor in a major blow.
Supporters of Mr. Merz, a former corporate lawyer, say he is well-prepared and thoughtful, but critics accuse him of failing ...
It was the first time in Germany’s postwar history that a chancellor-designate has failed to win an absolute majority.
Friedrich Merz was elected as Germany's chancellor in a second-round parliamentary vote on Tuesday, after failing to secure ...
Germany's new Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Tuesday that simply banning the far-right Alternative for Germany would not ...
Friedrich Merz’s unprecedented failure to win election as German chancellor in the first round of voting in parliament has ...
His countrymen, he declares, will have to ‘engage’ with the AfD, ‘factually and on substance.’ ...
One day after Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt, a member of the Bavarian sister party to Merz's Christian Democrats, ...