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Friedrich Merz, a conservative Christian Democrat, became Germany’s next chancellor after a surprising setback in parliament ...
BERLIN (AP) — Conservative leader Friedrich Merz succeeded Tuesday in becoming Germany’s next chancellor, drawing applause ...
Merz' appointment ends six months of political deadlock in the country after the collapse of Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s ...
Merz was elected chancellor Tuesday during a second vote in parliament, hours after he suffered a historic defeat in the first round.
Representatives for Germany's center-right Union bloc and the center-left Social Democrats on Monday formally signed a ...
The centre-left party will send four women and three men to the cabinet of incoming chancellor Friedrich Merz.
The party of outgoing Chancellor Olaf Scholtz ... with 328 of the Bundestag’s 630 seats. The Union and Social Democrats have governed Germany together before: once in the 1960s, and then in ...
Germany's Defence Minister Boris Pistorius -- who has led the push to make the military "ready for war" so it doesn't have to ...