Already, Merz has pledged to increase defense spending and put Paris, Warsaw, and London at the lead of a new policy to shore up Ukraine’s sovereignty and defend Europe from Russia with or without the ...

Friedrich Merz, poised to become Germany’s next chancellor, is charting an unexpected course in relations with President ...

Mr. Hermsmeier is a journalist who writes about Germany’s politics and society. Friedrich Merz didn’t waste time. Having led his party, the Christian Democrats, to first place in Germany’s ...

The agreement between Friedrich Merz, the likely next chancellor, and his potential coalition partners also includes big new infrastructure spending. By Jim Tankersley Reporting from Berlin Ever ...

Incoming Chancellor Friedrich Merz thinks he’s found a way to guarantee larger military budgets now and into the future. This comes via a plan to exempt much military spending from the country ...

But, although he will not become chancellor for some weeks, Friedrich Merz, who won Germany’s election on February 23rd, has just transformed his country with a stroke of commendable boldness.

"We will not allow ourselves to be blackmailed, nor will we allow Friedrich Merz and Lars Klingbeil to abuse a difficult European security situation," said Greens party co-leader Franziska Brantner.

Christian Democratic Union (CDU) leader Friedrich Merz at talks between the conservative union CDU/CSU parties and the Social Democratic Party (SPD) on the formation of a future government ...

Germany’s future chancellor Friedrich Merz on Saturday said his conservative CDU party has come to an agreement in principle with the Social Democrats (SPD) to form a coalition government.

The early signs are unexpectedly promising. The first step towards Mr Merz being effective on the European stage is for him to forge a coalition with the centre-left Social Democrats at home ...