Friedrich Merz, the likely next Chancellor of Germany, expressed hope that progress toward a ceasefire in Ukraine could be ...

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

European Union leaders are holding emergency talks on ways to quickly increase their military budgets after the Trump administration signaled that Europe must take care of its own security and also su ...

European Union leaders are holding emergency summit talks to beef up their own military defenses and make sure Ukraine will ...

The first step towards Mr Merz being effective on the European stage is for him to forge a coalition with the centre-left ...

Having led his party, the Christian Democrats, to first place in Germany’s election last month, Mr. Merz swiftly assumed the ...

Germany’s Friedrich Merz, poised to be his country’s next chancellor, said he thinks the explosive exchange between Ukrainian ...

Already, Merz has pledged to increase defense spending and put Paris, Warsaw, and London at the lead of a new policy to shore ...

Friedrich Merz is on course to become post-World War II Germany ... With President Donald Trump back in the White House and ...

The European Union is getting good at adapting to unprecedented circumstances. Over the last five years, the 27 member ...

BERLIN (AP) — Provisional results confirmed that mainstream conservatives led by Friedrich Merz won Germany’s national ...