Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, speaks during the German Bundestag final regular session before the upcoming elections. Hannes P ...

Here’s a look at the life Friedrich Merz, chancellor of Germany. Personal Birth date: November 11, 1955 Birth place: Brilon, Germany Birth name: Joachim-Friedrich Martin Josef Merz Father: Joachim ...

It's not a prospect they take lightly. Merz leads the EU’s largest economy and is the chief negotiator for wealthy countries seeking to rein in spending in the bloc’s proposed €2 trillion seven-year ...

Friedrich Merz failed to get the majority needed to become German chancellor in a parliamentary vote Tuesday. The result marks an unanticipated setback for Merz who was widely expected to secure the ...

Leader of the Christian Democrats Friedrich Merz is congratulated by outgoing Chancellor Olaf Scholz after being elected new chancellor at the German federal parliament, Bundestag, at the Reichstag ...

Friedrich Merz was elected as Germany's chancellor in a second-round parliamentary vote on Tuesday, after failing to secure enough support earlier in the day. Merz needed at least 316 of the 630 ...

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz is floating a once-unthinkable idea in European security: whether Germany should help build — or even field — nuclear weapons of its own as part of a broader effort to ...

The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party said it had filed a defamation complaint against Chancellor Friedrich Merz over a speech in which he said its “remigration” plans amounted to “ethnic ...