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 is on course to become post-World War II Germany’s 10th chancellor ... who saw his ascent derailed by former Chancellor Angela Merkel in the early 2000s and even turned his back on ...

Negotiators from German election winner Friedrich Merz’s conservative bloc and the center-left Social Democrats have started exploratory talks on a possible coalition government ...

Merz would return German politics to the right and the traditional conservatism of the Christian Democrats. It would be a remarkable comeback for a man pushed aside by Angela Merkel in the early ...

When Elon Musk posted on X in December that the only thing that could “save Germany” was the AfD, he was embracing a ...

Winner Friedrich Merz's conservatives need at least one coalition partner to govern and face potentially months of difficult ...

The strong performance of Germany’s far-right party, the Alternative für Deutschland, or AfD. AfD had shown surprising support in preelection polls, and grabbed a lot of attention in part thanks to ...

Friedrich Merz looks poised to form a coalition between his center-right alliance and the center-left Social Democrats, but ...

Merz expressed concern over changing relations with Washington under the Trump administration, emphasizing the need for gradual independence from the U.S.

It was the third largest party in the German parliament, its popularity driven by then-Chancellor Angela Merkel’s 2015 refugee policy, which allowed more than a million asylum seekers into Germany.