Germany's chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz has promised to "massively expand border controls" once the country's next ...

He has vowed to prioritize European unity and the continent’s security as it grapples with the new Trump administration and ...

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

The German federal polls have closed, and the exit polls appear to have handed the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) a victory ...

Compared to last October, the vote for the CDU/CSU is down slightly vis a vis the polls, the AfD have not rallied as much as ...

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Friedrich Merz, the leader of Germany's mainstream conservatives, has said that Europe must become independent from the ...

Friedrich Merz, a man who has never held a government ... he embodied many of the virtues of West Germany before the fall of the Berlin Wall – transatlanticist, business-oriented and socially ...

Negotiators from German election winner Friedrich Merz’s conservative bloc and the center-left Social Democrats have started ...

The Christian Democrat, who appeared to have a path to a stable governing coalition, hopes to lead Europe’s response to ...

Friedrich Merz is on course to become post-World War II Germany’s 10th chancellor, the culmination of a yearslong political career that was once sidelined by his party’s iconic leader BERLIN ...

“Friedrich Merz is perhaps the most international chancellor ... a political analyst from the WBZ Berlin Social Science Center, but “we shouldn’t expect to hear one voice out of Brussels.” ...