The German parliament plans to meet on May 6 to elect Friedrich Merz as the country’s next leader, if all the parties in his ...

There’s a German saying: “Der frühe Vogel fängt den Wurm.” (Or: The early bird catches the worm.) It underscores the ...

Germany's conservative Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz unveiled his party's coalition deal with the centre-left Social ...

Friedrich Merz, the incoming chancellor, persuaded lawmakers to let him spend more. Infrastructure will be the first order of ...

Berlin (AFP) – Germany's next leader, the conservative Friedrich Merz, vowed Wednesday to "move the country forward again" by ...

Now, even as President Donald Trump launches the biggest trade war in a century, Germany’s next chancellor, Friedrich Merz, is betting that Europe can ... ties with other EU members — and to sell ...

Friedrich Merz is on course to become Germany's 10th post-World War II chancellor, the culmination of a long political career that was once sidelined by his party’s iconic leader, Angela Merkel ...

Friedrich Merz of the CDU is expected to become the next chancellor, replacing Olaf Scholz after Germany's center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and center-left Social Democrats agreed to ...

BERLIN (AP) — Conservative leader Friedrich Merz is on course to become post-World War II Germany's 10th chancellor after finalizing a deal Wednesday to form a new government. Merz, 69 ...

Friedrich Merz, Christian Democratic Union party chairman, addresses the media after reaching an agreement between their parties on a coalition for a new German government at a news conference in ...