Merz won confirmation of MPs in a second round of voting after becoming the first ever chancellor candidate to lose in the ...

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

German MPs will vote again Tuesday on conservative leader Friedrich Merz's bid to become chancellor after he failed to win ...

The "de-facto closure" of the German border was ordered by Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt, a close Merz ally, in ...

An unsettling start for the Merz government resurrects doubts about Berlin as the EU's stable political centre.

The conservative leader needed a majority of 316 out of 630 votes in a secret ballot but received 310, unexpectedly falling ...

Conservative leader Friedrich Merz has won a parliament vote to become Germany's next chancellor at the second attempt. Merz ...

He failed to muster the required absolute majority in the first secret vote, falling short by six votes. Read more at ...

Following a failed first vote on Tuesday morning, CDU leader Friedrich Merz has now received 325 of the necessary 316 votes ...