Friedrich Merz’s halting path to the chancellor’s office inflamed his challenges at home and abroad, including a threat from ...

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 ...

Friedrich Merz on Tuesday became Germany's chancellor, succeeding in a second-round parliamentary vote after initially ...

Center-right politician Friedrich Merz was elected as German chancellor Tuesday in a second vote just hours after his ...

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

Friedrich Merz was elected chancellor by parliament in a second round of voting after an unprecedented defeat on the first ...

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

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

German conservative leader Friedrich Merz was elected chancellor by parliament in a second round of voting after losing the ...

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