Merz won in a second round of voting after failing to secure an absolute majority in an earlier round.

Conservative leader Friedrich Merz was elected in a second ballot by lawmakers as post-World War II Germany's 10th chancellor ...

Friedrich Merz’s halting path to the chancellor’s office inflamed his challenges at home and abroad, including a threat from ...

Germany was long a beacon of stability in Europe, its politics often reassuringly boring. "Germany and Europe need a strong ...

Friedrich Merz is poised to become chancellor at a challenging time for Germany. But in a first round of voting in Parliament ...

After losing a power struggle to arch party rival Angela Merkel in 2002 ... confidence and trust in Germany’s political ...

Friedrich Merz, designated Federal Chancellor (CDU), is pictured during the signing of the coalition agreement between the ...

GERMANY'S new government will now turn away undocumented immigrants, scrapping former Chancellor Angela Merkel's "open door ... to date in February's federal election, ending up in second place ...

Alexander Dobrindt, the new interior minister, rescinded Merkel's 2015 order, which had previously allowed hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers to enter Germany, many of whom were fleeing civil ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) (THE CONVERSATION) Friedrich Merz received a rude shock on the morning of May 6, 2025, ...

The CDU and SPD have governed Germany together in the past, most recently in three of the four terms of former Chancellor Angela Merkel, who led the country from 2005 to 2021. It is not the first ...

No other parties — including the biggest opposition party, the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) — were expected to vote in favor of him. AfD co-leader Alice Weidel subsequently called for fresh ...