Mr Merz’s commitment to restoring a long-absent German voice to European and international debates is not in doubt, and he ...

Three years ago Merz returned from the political wilderness to secure the leadership of the centre-right Christian Democratic ...

Conservative leader scrapes together just enough votes to claim Germany’s top job — but he’s weakened already.

In an extraordinary day of political turbulence in Berlin, Friedrich Merz, the long-time leader of Germany’s Christian ...

Conservative leader Friedrich Merz has won a parliament vote to become Germany's next chancellor at the second attempt. Merz ...

BERLIN – Friedrich Merz will make a second attempt to be confirmed as German chancellor by the parliament on Tuesday after ...

Merz was six votes short of being elected by the majority of Germany’s 630 parliamentarians. His coalition, which consists of ...

Friedrich Merz has secured a majority in the second round of voting at the German Bundestag, averting a constitutional crisis ...

For the first time since the founding of the Federal Republic, two rounds of voting were necessary to elect a chancellor.

Germany’s Friedrich Merz has formally become chancellor at the second attempt, hours after an unprecedented defeat signaled ...

Wolfgang Schröder, 60 years old, professor of political science at the University of Kassel, is among the most listened-to ...

Conservative leader Friedrich Merz ‘s bid to become Germany ‘s 10th chancellor since the second World War failed in the first ...