Germany's likely next leader Friedrich Merz is set Thursday to defend his unprecedented plans to massively ramp up defence ...

The opposition Alternative for Germany (AfD) party may deprive the future "big" coalition led by the likely Chancellor ...

Even though negotiations to form a coalition have not yet begun, the head of the Christian Democratic Union party, which came ...

Hours after Friedrich Merz's conservatives won Germany's national election, he sent the outgoing Social Democrat government a ...

While Merz is already setting the scene for his chancellery with an unprecedented, debt-funded investment announcement, ...

Germany's likely chancellor-to-be announces a political deal to raise hundreds of billions of euros in extra spending.

German election winner Friedrich Merz's conservatives and Social Democrats have completed preliminary coalition talks. They ...

Friedrich Merz, leader of Germany's CDU/CSU parliamentary bloc, is set to lead the next government after his party came first ...

For some, it was a case of Merz’s strategic sense not matching the acute tactical skills that enabled him to repeatedly pin ...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz reached out to his likely successor, Friedrich Merz, to discuss the outcome of the meeting ...

Friedrich Merz, leader of the Christian Democratic Union ... co-leader of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), German ...

Forget the back-slapping pol ready to banter about the Bundesliga; Friedrich Merz is a former corporate lawyer who wrote a ...