Merz, whose closest allies are mostly men, refused to adopt Heil’s request. The 69-year-old said he regretted the low number ...

Incoming Chancellor Friedrich Merz is under growing pressure to win conservative policy concessions as coalition talks hit ...

His conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and their Bavarian allies, the Christian Social Union (CSU), have long seen ...

The center-right Christian Democrats (CDU/CSU) of incoming Chancellor Friedrich Merz and the center-left Social Democratic Party (SPD) approved a raft of policies that would form the cornerstone of ...

Christian Social Union (CSU) - the CDU's sister party that only operates in the south-eastern German state of Bavaria - and ...

Merz's tougher stance on migration reflects a changing political landscape, where the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) ...

Friedrich Merz's debt-funded investment package is still facing unknowns, that could sink the legislation and doom his ...

CDU leader Friedrich Merz, who is likely to be the next chancellor, had held out the prospect of forming a government by Easter (April 20). However, no one in either the CDU or the SPD is now ...

German chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz said Tuesday that his proposed huge spending boost for defence was needed because ...

Friedrich Merz, poised to become Germany’s next chancellor, is charting an unexpected course in relations with President ...

The center-right and center-left parties have ended their first round of talks on time. Despite news of "good progress," ...

But voter reaction to Merz's decision will surface in the polls in the coming weeks, Wolf said. "It is quite likely that this will cost the (CDU/CSU) and Friedrich Merz support." Already ...