Conservative leader Friedrich Merz has been elected as new chancellor in the second round of voting in the Bundestag, the lower house of the German parliament. Merz's failure to win enough support ...

Tensions between Poland and Germany complicate the effort to show a united front against Russia’s Vladimir Putin.

German conservative leader Friedrich Merz was elected by lawmakers as the country's 10th chancellor on Tuesday, hours after suffering a humiliating defeat in a first round of voting on an ...

This article first appeared on GuruFocus. German lawmakers just signed off on a 1 billion ($1.2 billion) order for ...

It took two votes in the Bundestag, but in the end — as expected — conservative Friedrich Merz was elected as Germany's chancellor. He takes over the helm at a very difficult moment for Germany and ...

The claim by the Social Democratic Party (SPD), the Left Party, the trade unions and the media that an alliance of all ...

It will soon become difficult to film videos with smartphones in the German Bundestag. The same applies to wearing politically symbolic clothing or attaching stickers to laptops. According to a report ...

The Bavarian rejection makes it less likely that Chancellor Merz will support the Commission president’s proposals to punish ...

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has said that Berlin does not plan to send soldiers to Ukraine. He has voiced strong doubts ...

Atop a fragile ruling coalition, Germany’s new chancellor, Friedrich Merz, will have to learn to live with the elephant in the living room: Alternative für Deutschland. The AfD is not only Germany’s ...

The conservative politician had been expected to easily win confirmation to become Germany’s 10th chancellor since World War II, but initially fell 18 votes short. Merz then received 325 votes in the ...

Five days after his election victory in February, Friedrich Merz's world collapses. That's how he will describe it later. That Friday evening, he steps off the stage at a large conference center in ...