Friedrich Merz’s halting path to the chancellor’s office inflamed his challenges at home and abroad, including a threat from ...

Published years before WW2, Sally Carson's prescient novel captures the dawn of Nazi tyranny in a small German town – and ...

Mark Branson, the president of Germany's bank watchdog BaFin, said on Wednesday that the nation's financial firms were in a ...

Friedrich Merz secured the top job but only after losing on his first attempt, a surprise that potentially weakens his ...

Merz won in a second round of voting after failing to secure an absolute majority in an earlier round.

Germany's new Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Tuesday that simply banning the far-right Alternative for Germany would not ...

Friedrich Merz’s unprecedented failure to win election as German chancellor in the first round of voting in parliament has ...

Friedrich Merz succeeded in his bid to become the next German chancellor during a second vote in parliament, hours after he ...

The morning of May 6th was meant to be a routine final stage in the choreography of the handover of power to Friedrich Merz ...

The far-right Alternative für Deutschland called for fresh elections after Friedrich Merz's initial defeat in his bid to ...

Friedrich Merz needed a surprise second vote to clear parliament.

Germany's parliament will hold a second vote on Tuesday on backing Friedrich Merz as chancellor after the veteran ...