Friedrich Merz plunged straight into international crises on his first full day as Germany’s new chancellor, urging India and ...

Conservative leader Friedrich Merz was elected in a second ballot by lawmakers as post-World War II Germany's 10th chancellor ...

His countrymen, he declares, will have to ‘engage’ with the AfD, ‘factually and on substance.’ ...

Mr. Merz needed two rounds of voting to become chancellor after a surprising defeat in Parliament hours earlier that ...

In a historic first, conservative leader Friedrich Merz 's bid to become Germany's 10th chancellor since World War II failed ...

The win — on his second try — paves the way for him to take charge of Europe’s biggest economy but with his authority ...

China’s president tells new chancellor their countries’ relationship can ‘guide China-EU cooperation in the right direction’.

Friedrich Merz of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) was elected Chancellor of Germany on Tuesday after the second round of ...

Merz won in a second round of voting after failing to secure an absolute majority in an earlier round.

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

German conservative leader Friedrich Merz failed to secure enough parliamentary votes to become chancellor in a major blow.

Friedrich Merz, 69, a conservative stalwart and longtime rival of Angela Merkel, was elected Germany’s 10th postwar ...