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

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

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

Who do I call if I want to speak to Europe? The question was famously attributed to former U.S. Secretary of State Henry ...

Watch the trailer for 'Merkel,' a documentary about Germany's historic chancellor, Angela Merkel, who ruled for 16 years.

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

Paul Hockenos is a journalist and author based in Berlin. His most recent book is “Berlin Calling: A Story of Anarchy, Music, ...

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

Germany is poised for a shakeup in government after the country’s mainstream conservatives won its national election on Sunday, two months after outgoing Chancellor Olaf Scholz lost a confidence vote.

managed to get one in five German voters to vote for them. The new chancellor is Friedrich Merz. He entered politics in the 1990s and he was then swept out of political power by a certain Angela ...

Friedrich Merz looks poised to form a coalition between his center-right alliance and the center-left Social Democrats, but ...

Friedrich Merz said that Europe needed to “achieve independence from the United States, step by step.” That won’t be easy, ...