Incoming Germany Chancellor Friedrich Merz has a heavy lift: shake Europe’s economic engine out of stagnation. Markets are ...

Provisional results confirmed that mainstream conservatives led by Friedrich Merz won Germany's national election​, while far ...

Friedrich Merz and his party won, Elon Musk didn’t seem to move voters, and more lessons from an early German vote with big ...

Germany's election winner Friedrich Merz warned the United States on Monday against turning its back on allies but also urged ...

While polling suggests Germany's far-right AfD party will fare well, it's very unlikely to be part of the next government of ...

Four candidates are running to be Germany’s next leader: incumbent Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Friedrich Merz, current Vice ...

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Germany’s economy is stalled and its politics fractured. But it sees an opening for a new chancellor to lead Europe’s ...

Winner Friedrich Merz's conservatives need at least one coalition partner to govern and face potentially months of difficult ...

German voters go to the polls Sunday to elect a parliament that will determine who runs the country for the next four years.

The country’s elections are often a little dry ... Between 1989 and 1994, Merz was a member of the European parliament (MEP) for Germany. He subsequently became a member of the Bundestag ...

Friedrich Merz's task will be complicated by the need to form a coalition with the center-left Social Democrats of outgoing ...