Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s €46 billion ($53 billion) package of tax breaks was approved by German upper-house lawmakers, the ...

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has reaffirmed Germany's determination to take a leading role in European defence amid the ...

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz expects his government to take decisions on a possible reform of Germany's strict debt rules ...

Angela Merkel or Gerhard Schröder? Which of the former politicians who served as chancellor before the current officeholder, ...

A court in Germany has ruled that the Friedrich Merz administration has violated the law by turning back asylum seekers at the border without following a proper assessment, dealing a blow to the ...

Friedrich Merz becomes Germany's new chancellor after surviving historic vote failure Mr Merz has become the 10th German chancellor since the end of the Second World War.

BERLIN (AP) — Conservative leader Friedrich Merz was elected in a second ballot by lawmakers as post-World War II Germany's 10th chancellor on Tuesday — hours after he failed to win the first ...

Conservative leader Friedrich Merz has been elected as Germany’s chancellor — hours after he failed to win the first round in parliament in a historic defeat. Mr Merz, 69, who succeeds Olaf Scholz, ...

Conservative leader Friedrich Merz has been elected as Germany’s chancellor — hours after he failed to win the first round in parliament in a historic defeat. Mr Merz, 69, who succeeds Olaf ...

Friedrich Merz won the vote to become the next German chancellor on Tuesday after a second vote in parliament, hours after an unprecedented defeat in the first round of voting.