Friedrich Merz, on course to become post-World War II Germany's 10th chancellor after the country's election, has vowed to ...

Europe must seek to “achieve independence” from the United States, Germany’s likely next chancellor Friedrich Merz said after ...

"It is clear that this [the U.S.] government does not care much about the fate of Europe," says Friedrich Merz, who is set to ...

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

European shares were poised to snap their longest weekly winning streak in nearly a year on Friday, on elevated bond yields ...

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

Landau an der Isar, Kempten and Pfarrkirchen – these small towns may be unfamiliar to English, and indeed many German, ears.

At the most newsworthy Munich Security Conference in recent memory last weekend, Germany’s likely next chancellor did all he ...

German auto industry investors can relax as the election produced a bland result. Anyone looking to find quick solutions to ...

Friedrich Merz is set to become Germany’s next chancellor after his centre-Right Christian Democratic Union [CDU] party won ...

AfD's rise to become the second-largest party in Germany on Sunday's election is a boost to the country's conservative ...

The campaign was dominated by worries about the yearslong stagnation of Europe’s biggest economy and pressure to curb ...