FILE -Olaf Scholz, German Chancellor of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), left, and Friedrich Merz, right, leader of the ...

On the eve of taking office, incoming chancellor Friedrich Merz and his CDU/CSU-SPD alliance have pledged economic revival, ...

Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s coalition is weighing how to confront the Alternative for Germany party, which has been rising in ...

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

German conservative leader Friedrich Merz failed to secure enough parliamentary votes to become chancellor in a major blow.

The Left Party supports the German government's ... we say quite clearly that of course there needs to be a sufficient army in Germany and Europe for EU and national defence.

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

Shortly after the new government has taken office, the smallest opposition party in the Bundestag is taking stock of its recent success at a party conference in Chemnitz. Its motto is "We are the hope ...

The parliament will meet May 6 to elect Merz, who will need a majority of all members of the lower house to be elected as ...