However, it will also face big foreign policy challenges— almost all of which are linked to Donald Trump. Those were the ...

Yet, there’s understandable skepticism that Friedrich Merz can bear this mantle, much less fend off the far right. But now, after three decades of trying, Merz has the chance to prove he can.

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

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Mr. Hermsmeier is a journalist who writes about Germany’s politics and society. Friedrich Merz didn’t waste time. Having led his party, the Christian Democrats, to first place in Germany’s ...

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. Hours after his election victory last Sunday, Friedrich Merz, the leader of Germany’s center-right Christian Democrats (CDU), said on national television t ...

A long-time rival of centrist ex-chancellor Angela Merkel within the CDU party, Merz has attacked her open-door migrant policy and drawn her ire for accepting support from the far-right AfD on the ...

BERLIN, Feb 24 (Reuters) - Germany's likely next Chancellor Friedrich Merz questioned on Sunday whether NATO would remain in its "current form" by June in light of comments by U.S. President ...

Friedrich Merz, leader of the Christian Democratic Union, CDU, speaks to media prior to a faction meeting of the Christian Union party's lawmaker at the parliament Bundestag in Berlin, Germany ...

Friedrich Merz is the man tasked with leading Germany's next administration. Merz, who was somewhat sidelined during Angela Merkel’s 16 years at the helm of the CDU, has had a career that has ...

JERUSALEM, Feb 24 (Reuters) - Germany's likely next chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Monday he had invited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to visit and would find a way for him to do so ...

The photo distributed by the French government shows German conservative leader Friedrich Merz (R) visiting the Elysee Palace with French President Emmanuel Macron. Sarah steck/Présidence de la ...