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Friedrich Merz, who won the February 23 national election, has seen his poll ratings slide following the coalition agreement ...

The 69-year-old Merz, who had previously called Trump's U.S. an unreliable ally, has already vowed to build up defence ...

Germany's conservative chancellor-in-waiting has cast doubt on some of the commitments he had made to secure a coalition with ...

Merz is on track to become Germany’s new leader in early May, replacing outgoing Chancellor Olaf Scholz. The 69-year-old's two-party Union bloc emerged as the strongest force from Germany’s ...

BERLIN — Germany's would-be next chancellor, Friedrich Merz, won lawmakers' approval Tuesday ... The package was brought to the old parliament — not the newly elected one, which will hold ...

The 69-year-old Merz, who called Trump’s US an unreliable ally, has already vowed to build up defense spending as Europe faces a hostile Russia, and to support businesses struggling with high ...

Lawmakers have embraced plans unveiled by Friedrich Merz, soon to take the reins as ... spending package that effectively lifts a decades-old "debt brake" measure in the nation's laws that has ...

Germany's likely incoming chancellor, Friedrich Merz, said Sunday that the country is open to supplying Ukraine with long-range Taurus missiles, but only with the support of its European partners, ...

Merz’s conservatives and the Social Democratic Party (SPD), who are in talks to form a centrist coalition after last month’s election, want to create a 500-billion-euro ($546bn) fund for ...

Simply sign up to the German politics myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. As Friedrich Merz moves closer to power, the women in his Christian Democratic Union fear they will be kept ...