Friedrich Merz’s halting path to the chancellor’s office inflamed his challenges at home and abroad, including a threat from ...

New German Chancellor Friedrich Merz announced a reset in French-German relations to help Europe overcome the "enormous" ...

Center-right politician Friedrich Merz was elected as German chancellor Tuesday in a second vote just hours after his ...

Friedrich Merz on Tuesday became Germany's chancellor, succeeding in a second-round parliamentary vote after initially ...

BERLIN — Friedrich Merz made his world-affairs debut Wednesday as Germany’s new chancellor , with plans to immediately team ...

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

Friedrich Merz was elected chancellor by parliament in a second round of voting after an unprecedented defeat on the first ...

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

Friedrich Merz succeeded in his bid to become the next German chancellor during a second vote in parliament, hours after he ...

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

Friedrich Merz has been elected as Germany's 10th post-World War II chancellor, the culmination of a long political career ...