Having led his party, the Christian Democrats, to first place in Germany’s election last month, Mr. Merz swiftly assumed the ...

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Already, Merz has pledged to increase defense spending and put Paris, Warsaw, and London at the lead of a new policy to shore ...

CDU celebrations are muted because a 28.52pc vote share means a weaker negotiating position in coalition with the centre-Left ...

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Merz would return German politics to the right and the traditional conservatism of the Christian Democrats. It would be a remarkable comeback for a man pushed aside by Angela Merkel in the early ...

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Friedrich Merz heralds a new era for Germany, after the German elections revealed a majority of young voters are leaning ...

Negotiators from German election winner Friedrich Merz’s conservative bloc and the center-left Social Democrats have started exploratory talks on a possible coalition government ...

When Elon Musk posted on X in December that the only thing that could “save Germany” was the AfD, he was embracing a ...

Winner Friedrich Merz's conservatives need at least one coalition partner to govern and face potentially months of difficult ...