Who Is Friedrich Merz? Germany's Likely Next Chancellor
The German federal polls have closed, and the exit polls appear to have handed the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) a victory ...
Merz Appears Poised to Be Germany’s Next Chancellor
Exit polls suggest that Friedrich Merz, the candidate for the conservative Christian Democrats who has vowed to bring ...
Explainer: Germany's rocky path to a new debt settlement
Germany's would-be next chancellor, conservative leader Friedrich Merz, and the Social Democrats (SPD) with whom he is trying ...
Germany's Merz and SPD clear first hurdle to forming coalition
BERLIN (Reuters) -German election winner Friedrich Merz's conservatives and the Social Democrats (SPD) have concluded ...
Trump’s Embrace of Putin Has Germany Thinking of Nuclear Weapons
Europeans are reconsidering their security and giving currency to an idea the U.S. has long sought to avoid: a nuclear-armed ...
Germany’s likely next government seeks higher defense spending as doubts rise about US commitment
The prospective partners in Germany’s next government say they will seek to loosen the nation’s rules on running up debt to ...
Germany’s Likely Next Chancellor Pushes For Tighter Border Controls
Germany's economy is in desperate need of foreign labor, but a political environment hostile to all kinds of immigrants makes ...
Germany eyes swift moves on defence, investors sniff bonanza
The prospect of a military spending boom by Germany unprecedented since the Cold War sent Europe's defence stocks soaring ...
Germany’s far-right may be frozen out of power, but the AfD is now a powerful force
Germany’s political system is set up to exclude extremists. Yet the country is waking up to a new political reality that has ...
Friedrich Merz, a Conservative, Is Poised to Be Germany’s Next Chancellor
The Christian Democrat, who appeared to have a path to a stable governing coalition, hopes to lead Europe’s response to ...
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Who Is Friedrich Merz? Germany's Likely Next Chancellor
Peter Aitken is a Newsweek Politics Editor based in New York. His focus is domestic U.S. politics, but he has experience covering Foreign Affairs, Business and Technology. Peter joined Newsweek in ...