German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has said that Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin must understand he has no chance of winning the ...

A test vote by lawmakers in Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s conservative caucus suggested his ruling coalition may struggle to ...

The leader of the CDU/CSU bloc, Friedrich Merz, was not elected as the new chancellor of Germany. He lacked the necessary votes in the first vote in the Bundestag, according to German Tagesschau. In ...

During budget debates in the Bundestag, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, in particular, touched on the topic of settling the ...

Conservative legislators in Germany voted by a large majority in favour of a ​contested pension reform package in what had ...

Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s strained government agreed to pursue larger pension reforms and seek exemptions on the EU’s ban ...

At the annual meeting of the Junge Union, the joint youth organisation of the CDU/CSU ruling coalition, the divide between delegates and Merz widened — especially when it came to pension reform policy ...

The youth organizations of Germany's leading political parties are growing more self-confident — and with tight majorities in ...

The German parliament is debating the 2026 federal budget this week, which raises the defence budget to €108 billion.

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 ...

Germany is the only member of the G7 group of advanced economies that has failed to grow for the past two years.

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 ...