With domestic problems and foreign policy crises looming large, the pressure is on to form a new government in Berlin. View ...

Friedrich Merz previously held the position of the chairman of the united CDU/CSU faction during the last legislative period from 2000 to 2002 ...

As Friedrich Merz looks set to become Germany’s next chancellor amid strained EU-US relations, some say time is right for ...

As the Trump administration ramps up its rhetoric against Ukraine and NATO, European countries are taking note — with ...

Germany's election winner Friedrich Merz wants to form a government quickly in order to revive a moribund economy, hike ...

Germany's election winner Friedrich Merz wants to form a government quickly in order to revive a moribund economy, hike ...

Merz’s “real independence” statement would have been noteworthy coming from any German chancellor. But it is even more striking when one considers the fact that Merz is a committed transatlanticist ...

After more than three years with Chancellor Olaf Scholz at Germany’s helm, Sunday’s election cemented the country’s lurch to ...

Facing a slowing German economy, high energy bills, onerous bureaucracy and the threat of US tariffs, a Black Forest-based ...

Germany faces its second change of leader in less than four years after the head of the center-right opposition won Sunday’s ...

Friedrich Merz is on course to become post-World War II Germany’s 10th chancellor, the culmination of a yearslong political ...

Former Mayer Brown counsel and Blackrock advisor Friedrich Merz is Germany’s presumptive new Chancellor after his Christian ...