A long-time rival of centrist ex-chancellor Angela Merkel within the CDU party, Merz has attacked her open-door migrant policy and drawn her ire for accepting support from the far-right AfD on the ...

Germany held early elections to the Bundestag. The winner of this election cycle was the conservative CDU/CSU alliance, while ...

The Leader of the AfD remarks that America can have a docile Germany and pay most of its defense bills — or leave Germany to ...

German stocks rose on Monday as election results indicated it's likely a government will be able to be formed between the main center-right and center-left parties.

A conservative alliance made up of the CDU and CSU is set to lead Germany again, but the new coalition government will have ...

Germany's likely next chancellor Friedrich Merz will start trying to form a coalition government on Monday after his ...

Merz expressed concern over changing relations with Washington under the Trump administration, emphasizing the need for ...

Recent Germany's conservative bloc, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and the Christian Social Union (CSU), has won in the ...

WWII chancellor, reflecting a long political journey shadowed by Angela Merkel. Despite never holding government office, Merz leads the center-right Union bloc and faces challenges like economic ...

Photo: Friedrich Merz, the candidate of the mainstream conservative Christian Democratic Union party, gestures while ...

World War II Germany’s 10th chancellor, the culmination of a yearslong political career that was once sidelined by his ...

It is clear that this [the U.S.] government does not care much about the fate of Europe,” says Friedrich Merz, who is set to ...