Post-WWII Germany has long been wary of state power and unfettered spending − and that may stymie new chancellor’s plans.

Friedrich Merz has plunged straight into international crises on his first full day as Germany’s new chancellor. He presented ...

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

The conservative politician lost a first-round parliamentary vote to become leader, an upset that spells fresh uncertainty ...

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Friedrich Merz reacts after he failed to be elected new chancellor in the first voting process at the German federal ...

BERLIN (AP) — Conservative leader Friedrich Merz was elected in a second ballot by lawmakers as post-World War II Germany's ...

German chancellor-in-waiting and leader of the Christian Democratic Union party (CDU), Friedrich Merz delivers a speech during the European People's Party (EPP) congress in Valencia, on April 29th ...

In many ways, "The Cross in the Mountains," a monumental drawing from 1806, establishes the visual, spiritual and symbolic vocabulary that would come to define the work of Caspar David Friedrich ...

‘Great experience’: Friedrich Merz, who’s set to become Germany’s 10th chancellor next week, assigned key ministries to outside figures, who, he said, would “enter the federal government with great ...

Germany's chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz is poised to lead a coalition government from next week after his junior partners, the Social Democrats (SPD), said Wednesday they had approved a ...

Friedrich Merz is poised to become Germany's next chancellor following the approval of a coalition agreement between his CDU/CSU bloc and the Social Democratic Party (SPD). The German Bundestag is ...