Who is Friedrich Merz, the Next Chancellor of Germany? All you need to know
Friedrich Merz, the leader of Germany's Christian Democratic Union (CDU), is set to become the next Chancellor of Germany ...
"The burden of power": The party of the future German Chancellor is already losing support
The successful completion of the probing negotiations for the winner of the Bundestag elections, the Christian Democratic ...
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 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 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’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 ...
Courthouse News Service13d
Deeply divided Germany elects conservative Merz chancellor, far right surges to second place
Friedrich Merz’s Christian Democrats took the highest portion of a record number of votes. An ascendant far right, crumbling ...
Newsweek13d
Europe Should 'Achieve Independence' From US, Says Germany's Merz
Merz, the likely next chancellor of Germany, has warned that Europe can no longer count on the U.S., which he said had become "largely indifferent" to the continent's fate. His comments follow the ...
Houston Chronicle13d
Germany’s chancellor-in-waiting prioritizes ‘real’ independence from the US − but what does that mean and is it achievable?
(THE CONVERSATION) Germany’s presumptive new chancellor, Friedrich Merz, faces challenges both at home and overseas following his conservative alliance’s election victory on Feb. 23 ...
Explainer-Germany's Rocky Path to a New Debt Settlement
But the conservatives, SPD and Greens still need the backing of one more party for it to pass the Bundesrat: that could be ...