Conservative leader Friedrich Merz won a lackluster victory, while Chancellor Olaf Scholz conceded his center-left Social ...
Center-right opposition leader Friedrich Merz claimed victory in Germany’s national election on Sunday after exit polls showed his bloc in the lead. Merz said he was aware of the dimension of the task ...
Friedrich Merz — the leader of the victorious Christian Democratic Union-Christian Social Union alliance — is a U.S.-loving former lawyer but he may clash with President Donald Trump, as Merz is a ...
With his party topping Germany's snap election poll, Friedrich Merz looks set to fulfil his lifelong ambition of becoming ...
The German federal polls have closed, and the exit polls appear to have handed the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) a victory.
The Christian Democrat, who appeared to have a path to a stable governing coalition, hopes to lead Europe’s response to ...
Whether he can form a strong coalition remains to be seen, but whatever he does will be an essential part of Europe’s ...
Merz, a man who has never held a government role, is preparing to take the reins in Germany just as the country faces ...
Voters give the center-right a chance to govern, but the AfD lurks to take advantage of failure.
Friedrich Merz will be the next chancellor of Germany. And he still can’t tell what his government program will be. His ...
As Germany heads to the polls on February 23, Europe finds itself at a crossroads. With Berlin and Paris preoccupied with ...