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 ...

Friedrich Merz has become Germany's new chancellor after winning a second vote in the country's parliament. He unexpectedly ...

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.

Friedrich Merz, the leader of the German conservatives, has been elected as chancellor after winning the second of two votes ...

Germany's conservative leader Friedrich Merz suffered a serious blow today when he failed to win a parliamentary majority in ...

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