Merz’s two-party Union bloc emerged as the strongest force from Germany’s election on Feb. 23 ... a trained lawyer who saw ...

Friedrich Merz, leader of the conservative German party CDU is set to be elected chancellor on May 6, party sources said on ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz listens during a ...

Hildegard Müller, one of Merkel’s former lieutenants and currently the head of Germany’s powerful auto lobby, is pushing for ...

Germany's 146-page coalition deal lays out policy compromises in exacting details. But who runs which ministries remains a ...

BERLIN (AP) — Germany's new parliament on Tuesday elected as its speaker a conservative former minister ... behind the president and ahead of the chancellor — traditionally goes to the ...

German Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz has ... Merz laid out a vision of a Germany restored to its former strength and reliability. “The future government, the future coalition, will ...

After weeks of negotiations, the conservative CDU/CSU bloc and center-left SPD presented a coalition deal to form a new ...

Friedrich Merz is on course to become Germany's 10th post-World War II ... a trained lawyer who saw his ascent derailed by former Chancellor Angela Merkel in the early 2000s and even turned ...