Having led his party, the Christian Democrats, to first place in Germany’s election last month, Mr. Merz swiftly assumed the ...

Already, Merz has pledged to increase defense spending and put Paris, Warsaw, and London at the lead of a new policy to shore ...

Friedrich Merz faces a host of political, economic and foreign policy challenges as he puts together a working coalition ...

Friedrich Merz, leader of Germany's CDU/CSU parliamentary bloc, is set to lead the next government after his party came first ...

Germany's conservatives and Social Democrats (SPD) on Tuesday held talks on forming a coalition as hopes for buoying Europe's ...

As Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy continues to scramble for support through Europe following rift with the United ...

Germany's conservatives, who are set to lead the next government, on mmmshould quickly reintroduce compulsory military ...

Friedrich Merz, head of the CDU/CSU bloc that won last month's elections, has argued that in the era of US President Donald ...

President Trump’s decision to arrange direct talks with the Russians to secure a peace deal as the war in Ukraine enters its ...

Germany's future chancellor Friedrich Merz admitted for the first time that he intended to 'discuss' expanding nuclear ...

US vice-president JD Vance has always made news of the wrong kind. When he was running for election as Donald Trump’s vice president, he called American women without children, “childless cat ladies,” ...

Despite being a long-standing transatlanticist, Merz has emphasized the need for more European independence from the United ...