The leader of the German conservative bloc of CDU/CSU parties, Friedrich Merz, received the required majority of votes and ...

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

Whether Germany under Friedrich Merz will become the new leader of the Western world, how the new chancellor is breaking the ...

President Volodymyr Zelensky spoke with outgoing German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in a phone call on May 5 and thanked him for ...

Andreas Umland, a German expert and analyst at the Stockholm Center for Eastern European Studies, expressed this hope in a ...

All four international airports around Moscow temporarily suspended flights Tuesday as Russian forces intercepted more than ...

Merz bounces back to take the top job as Germany braces for economic headwinds, rising global tensions and an expectant ...

BERLIN (AP) — Conservative leader Friedrich Merz succeeded Tuesday in becoming Germany’s next chancellor, drawing applause ...

Conservative leader Friedrich Merz has been elected as Germany’s chancellor — hours after he failed to win the first round in ...

To accomplish that task, he will need to repair ties with the U.S. and allies, end an immigration crisis and kick-start the ...