Friedrich Merz secured the top job but only after losing on his first attempt, a surprise that potentially weakens his ...

Friedrich Merz's unprecedented first-round failure in the vote to make him German chancellor on Tuesday gave a boost to the ...

Mr. Merz needed two rounds of voting to become chancellor after a surprising defeat in Parliament hours earlier that ...

German conservative leader Friedrich Merz was elected chancellor by parliament on Tuesday in a second round of voting after a ...

Germany's conservative leader Friedrich Merz narrowly lost a vote in the Bundestag to become the next chancellor in an ...

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

At least a dozen members of Merz’s proposed coalition failed to back him in the first vote on Tuesday — despite his coalition ...

The failure of Friedrich Merz to be elected Chancellor of Germany by his own parliamentary coalition at the first ballot is a ...

Years after being ousted from the AfD, former party leader Frauke Petry intends to launch a new political party in Germany.

BERLIN – Friedrich Merz was elected chancellor by the German parliament Tuesday in a second round of voting, after failing to ...

BERLIN (AP) — Friedrich Merz succeeded Tuesday in his bid to become the next German chancellor during a second vote in ...