Former German chancellor Angela Merkel on Monday called for European unity in the face of current political challenges, ...

US President Donald Trump thought that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was ready to walk down the aisle and say “I do ...

But then Zelensky decided to play hard to get — swiping left in Trump’s face so hard that it’s a miracle it didn’t leave an actual mark on his signature bronzer ... both former German Chancellor ...

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

For most of his first term, President Donald Trump was a relatively lonely figure on the world stage. Establishment figures considered him vulgar, and his unaba ...

There is no deadline for forming a government, and the record is much longer. After the 2017 election, it was nearly six months before lawmakers elected then-Chancellor Angela Merkel for her fourth ...

Merkel collaborated especially well with France’s Emmanuel Macron, a passionate fellow Europeanist, communicating a vision of a united Europe and its core values to the rest of the world. Dubbed “ ...

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

BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's election winner Friedrich Merz wants to form a government quickly in order to revive a moribund ...

Angela Merkel. That gives the SPD negotiating team an advantage: give us more policies, or ministers, they can say, and we have a better chance of getting our restive membership on board.