Bundestag confirmed Friedrich Merz as Germany's new chancellor in a successful second vote after he unexpectedly lost an ...

Germany’s new interior minister says the new government plans to station more police at the border to curb illegal migration ...

Mr Merz’s commitment to restoring a long-absent German voice to European and international debates is not in doubt, and he ...

This has never happened before: the failure of a chancellor in the first round of voting is a historic first. Since 1949, ...

Friedrich Merz's loss in the Bundestag election was a surprise. He was considered the favorite since his party won Germany’s ...

Germany’s Friedrich Merz has formally become chancellor at the second attempt, hours after an unprecedented defeat signaled ...

For the first time since the founding of the Federal Republic, two rounds of voting were necessary to elect a chancellor.

Germany’s conservative leader Friedrich Merz was successfully elected chancellor of the country Tuesday after a historic ...

Friedrich Merz secured Germany’s chancellorship Tuesday after overcoming an initial parliamentary defeat that had thrown his and Germany’s political future ...

Wolfgang Schröder, 60 years old, professor of political science at the University of Kassel, is among the most listened-to ...

First failed vote highlights Germany’s new head of government has a thin majority to deliver an ambitious programme ...