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

A bold move by Germany’s prime minister-in-waiting Friedrich Merz to ease longstanding caps on government spending has won ...

Simply sign up to the German politics myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. As Friedrich Merz moves closer to power, the women in his Christian Democratic Union fear they will be kept ...

Mr. Hermsmeier is a journalist who writes about Germany’s politics and society. Friedrich Merz didn’t waste time. Having led his party, the Christian Democrats, to first place in Germany’s ...

For ten years, Friedrich Merz was Chairman of the Atlantik-Brücke — a non-partisan organization for the cultivation of American-German relations. Germany was already in bad standing with Trump ...

In a significant shift for Germany's defense policy, incoming Chancellor Friedrich Merz has announced plans to revitalize the country's military, the Bundeswehr, which has faced decades of ...

Friedrich Merz's conservatives won national election Conservatives need Chancellor Scholz's Social Democrats for coalition But Merz's imperious style is riling leading SPD politicians Merz sent ...

BERLIN — Germany’s new lower house of parliament opens on Tuesday for the first time since Friedrich Merz stormed to victory in the Feb. 23 election. It has been quite a whirlwind month. The new ...

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Incoming Chancellor Friedrich Merz thinks he’s found a way to guarantee larger military budgets now and into the future. This comes via a plan to exempt much military spending from the country ...

The agreement between Friedrich Merz, the likely next chancellor, and his potential coalition partners also includes big new infrastructure spending. By Jim Tankersley Reporting from Berlin Ever ...