German conservative leader Friedrich Merz was elected by lawmakers as the country's 10th chancellor on Tuesday, hours after suffering a humiliating defeat in a first round of voting on an ...

Conservative leader Friedrich Merz has been elected as new chancellor in the second round of voting in the Bundestag, the lower house of the German parliament. Merz's failure to win enough support ...

Bundestag President Julia Klöckner will receive Volodymyr Zelenskyy for talks. One of the topics of the meeting will be the ...

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s ruling coalition secured parliamentary approval for its contentious pension bill, avoiding ...

It took two votes in the Bundestag, but in the end — as expected — conservative Friedrich Merz was elected as Germany's chancellor. He takes over the helm at a very difficult moment for Germany and ...

German lawmakers clashed in the Bundestag on Friday over whether frozen Russian assets should be made fully available to support Ukraine. The AfD warned that such a move could undermine confidence in ...

German chancellor Friedrich Merz saw off a parliamentary rebellion on Friday and narrowly held his coalition together in a ...

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s unwieldy ruling alliance with the Social Democrats is facing an existential crisis of its ...

German far-right leader Alice Weidel on Wednesday launched a fierce attack on Chancellor Friedrich Merz over his young administration's record since taking office in May. "For the bitterly ...

Atop a fragile ruling coalition, Germany’s new chancellor, Friedrich Merz, will have to learn to live with the elephant in the living room: Alternative für Deutschland. The AfD is not only Germany’s ...

By Sarah Marsh and Andreas Rinke BERLIN, Dec 5 (Reuters) - German Chancellor Friedrich Merz narrowly averted a government ...

The change means that all 18-year-olds in Germany will be sent a questionnaire from January 2026 asking if they are ...