The German parliament plans to meet on May 6 to elect Friedrich Merz as the country's next leader, if all the parties in his ...

Friedrich Merz's Christian Democrats (CDU), the Christian Social Union (CSU) and the Social Democrats (SPD) last week struck ...

Germany's new parliament on Tuesday elected as its speaker a conservative former minister, who called for civilized debate in ...

Conservative leader Friedrich Merz is on course to become post-World War II Germany's 10th chancellor after finalizing a deal ...

Germany's parliament approved plans for a massive spending surge on Tuesday, throwing off decades of fiscal conservatism in ...

Conservative and center-left parties will present a deal to form a new German government on Wednesday after weeks of ...

The AfD became the first German nationalist party to become the most popular since the foundation of the modern republic.

Germany’s would-be next chancellor, Friedrich Merz, won lawmakers’ approval Tuesday for ambitious plans to loosen the nation’s strict debt rules for higher defense spending as doubts mount about the ...

Right-wing parties in Europe face suppression from establishment institutions, including legal prosecution and exclusion from ...

Merz turned his back on active politics for several years after leaving the parliament in 2009. He practiced law and headed the supervisory board of investment manager BlackRock’s German branch.