BERLIN — Conservative leader Friedrich Merz is on course to become post-World War II Germany's 10th chancellor after finalizing a deal Wednesday to form a new government. Merz, 69, who will ...

Modern politics can be brutally unforgiving for incumbent politicians. Yet, for incoming German chancellor Friedrich Merz, ...

Germany's incoming government is being watched with some scepticism by people across the political spectrum. Conservative ...

Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz’s CDU party emerged victorious ... “For the first time in the still-young history of the AfD, we are the strongest force in Germany. Thank you for your ...

As troop numbers stagnate and Russia’s threat looms, Berlin is betting on a voluntary service model to rebuild the military — ...

Friedrich Merz of the CDU is expected to become the next chancellor, replacing Olaf Scholz after Germany's center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and center-left Social Democrats agreed to ...

BERLIN — Friedrich Merz has yet to begin his chancellorship ... Much of the criticism of Merz is coming from his conservative bloc’s youth organization, the Young Union. Johannes Winkel, the chair of ...

BERLIN (AP) — 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 proposed government approve a coalition agreement ...