Friedrich Merz is facing a critical moment in his bid to become German chancellor, as disgruntled fellow conservatives worry ...

Ron Prosor is first foreign ambassador invited to meeting of heads of German states; he says the far-right AfD party has ...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is to be officially dismissed by President Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Tuesday after a new ...

Friedrich Merz has positioned himself as a China critic in the past, finding fault with Chancellors Olaf Scholz and ...

Friedrich Merz, who's expected to become Germany's next chancellor ... its military is notoriously underfunded. Olaf Scholz's Social Democrat-led government set up a €100bn fund after Russia's ...

Friedrich Merz promised to do things differently. Ahead of the country’s federal election last month, the likely next ...

Friedrich Merz, poised to become Germany’s next chancellor, is charting an unexpected course in relations with President ...

Germany's conservative leader, Friedrich Merz, has clinched an enormous financial ... That would enable outgoing chancellor ...

Negotiators from German election winner Friedrich Merz's conservative bloc ... is the Social Democrats of outgoing Chancellor Olaf Scholz. They slumped to third place and their worst post-World ...

The German chancellor-in-waiting, Friedrich Merz, has won a vote in parliament to allow a huge ... a turning point” in ...

Germany's outgoing Chancellor Olaf Scholz has hailed a multi-billion-euro spending package that passed the Bundestag on ...

Since Merz's Union bloc and the Social Democrats don't have enough seats to pass the plans on their own, they need support from the environmentalist Greens. The leadership of the Greens ...