BERLIN - Germany's election winner Friedrich Merz wants to form a government quickly in order to revive a moribund economy, hike defence spending and tackle diplomatic challenges ranging from a ...

Germany's next leader, conservative Friedrich Merz, has raised the alarm over European defence but the clock is ticking for ...

Merz’s “real independence” statement would have been noteworthy coming from any German chancellor. But it is even more striking when one considers the fact that Merz is a committed transatlanticist ...

Merz’s Conservative CDU emerged as the largest party in Sunday’s federal elections, winning 208 seats in the 630-seat German ...

After more than three years with Chancellor Olaf Scholz at Germany’s helm, Sunday’s election cemented the country’s lurch to ...

Friedrich Merz is on course to become post-World War II Germany’s 10th chancellor, the culmination of a yearslong political ...

Germany’s mainstream conservatives have won the country’s national election, while a far-right party surged to become the ...

If Europe’s leaders dare learn the tough lesson Trump is teaching, they will restore national cohesion — which prosperity ...

Former Mayer Brown counsel and Blackrock advisor Friedrich Merz is Germany’s presumptive new Chancellor after his Christian ...

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

The likely next chancellor is unpopular, and his country’s economy has stalled. But his penchant for risks could help lead to ...

Germany faces its second change of leader in less than four years after the head of the center-right opposition won Sunday’s ...