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Trouble at home threatens Friedrich Merz’s global ambitions
Mr Merz’s commitment to restoring a long-absent German voice to European and international debates is not in doubt, and he ...
Defense News on MSN7h
Macron, Merz vow closer defense ties in reboot of French-German couple
PARIS - German Chancellor Friedrich Merz traveled to Paris on his first foreign trip as head of government to meet with ...
Friedrich Merz Becomes Germany’s Leader After Unexpected Day of Drama
Mr. Merz needed two rounds of voting to become chancellor after a surprising defeat in Parliament hours earlier that ...
Conservative leader Merz overcomes historic defeat to become Germany’s chancellor
Friedrich Merz succeeded in his bid to become the next German chancellor during a second vote in parliament, hours after he ...
Merz’s Plans to Tighten Border Checks Face Pushback in Warsaw
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk pushed back against plans by Germany’s new Chancellor Friedrich Merz to tighten border ...
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Germany’s Merz suspends EU law in bid to halt migration: media reports
One day after Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt, a member of the Bavarian sister party to Merz's Christian Democrats, ...
Merz averted disaster, but the knives are out
Faced with a triumphant far-right AfD demanding new elections, the opposition Greens and the Left party — who Merz had ...
DPA International on MSN1d
Germany's Merz calls on India and Pakistan to de-escalate
New German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has called on India and Pakistan to de-escalate after India launched overnight attacks ...