BERLIN - German lawmakers will gather in early May to elect Friedrich Merz as chancellor after his conservative bloc sealed a ...

German lawmakers will gather in early May to elect Friedrich Merz as chancellor after his conservative bloc sealed a ...

Germany's presumptive next leader Friedrich Merz has an "absolute will to power," former chancellor Angela Merkel said on ...

Outgoing Chancellor Olaf Scholz has plans to visit Warsaw before expected new Chancellor Friedrich Merz is set to be sworn in ...

Compared with former Chancellor Angela Merkel ... Merz hails from the Sauerland — a region of low mountains in western Germany — and is both a Catholic and a lawyer, like his father before ...

Merz launched his political comeback after Merkel stepped down as CDU leader in 2018 and announced that she wouldn't seek a ...

Germany's incoming chancellor Friedrich Merz has drawn sharp criticism from Moscow by suggesting that destroying the Russian ...

A German man has been fined €4,500 and given a two-and-a-half-year driving ban for breaching Chancellor Olaf Scholz's security detail and embracing him at Frankfurt Airport. The incident, which ...

The former Russian leader slammed Friedrich Merz for suggesting that Kiev could use Berlin-supplied missiles to destroy the Crimean Bridge Re ...

Germany's likely next chancellor Friedrich Merz strongly condemned a Russian attack in northeastern Ukraine that killed more ...