Europe must seek to “achieve independence” from the United States, Germany’s likely next chancellor Friedrich Merz said after ...

The Christian Democrat, who appeared to have a path to a stable governing coalition, hopes to lead Europe’s response to ...

Whether he can form a strong coalition remains to be seen, but whatever he does will be an essential part of Europe’s ...

Friedrich Merz will be the next chancellor of Germany. And he still can’t tell what his government program will be. His ...

Merz, a man who has never held a government role, is preparing to take the reins in Germany just as the country faces ...

Friedrich Merz, who has no previous experience in office, is set to become Germany's chancellor with Europe's largest economy ...

The Christian Democratic Union’s likely victory comes despite a strong showing by the far-right Alternative for Germany, or ...

The conservative CDU/CSU party is set to be the largest party in the next German parliament, according to the first two exit ...

That paves the way for their candidate, Friedrich Merz (pictured), to take over from Olaf Scholz as chancellor after ...

Millions of Germans are deciding the next chancellor in snap elections Sunday with the center-right Christian Democratic ...

A marked moment of political severance came at the end of January, when Friedrich Merz pushed through a non-binding motion on ...