Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s coalition is weighing how to ... The fight over the Wels Hall is just one in a series of challenges facing the Social Democrats and their senior partners in the ...

However, it will also face big foreign policy challenges — almost all of which ... For ten years, Friedrich Merz was Chairman of the Atlantik-Brücke — a non-partisan organization for the ...

BERLIN — Conservative leader Friedrich Merz’s failure to win a majority in parliament in his first bid to become Germany’s 10th post-World War II chancellor suggests challenges ahead for the attempt ...

Nick Schifrin reports on the challenges that Merz inherits. In Berlin today, Friedrich Merz was elected Germany's chancellor, but not without a surprising setback. For the first time in Germany's ...

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz is set to meet President Trump at the White House, where they are expected to discuss issues ...

Friedrich Merz of the CDU is expected to become the next chancellor, replacing Olaf Scholz after Germany's center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and center-left Social Democrats agreed to ...

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has called for a renewed partnership with France to help Europe confront its “enormous” security and economic challenges. At a joint news conference with ...

Despite its designation as extremist by the country's intelligence services, the AfD's growing strength poses an immediate challenge to incoming conservative chancellor Friedrich Merz, who takes ...

President Trump and German Chancellor Merz will talk tariffs, automobiles and Russia-Ukraine when they meet at the White ...

"It is clear that this government does not care much about the fate of Europe," Friedrich Merz – Germany's then-chancellor in waiting – declared in February in reference to the Trump ...

That’s how long Friedrich Merz’s signature border policy survived before walking into a perfectly laid ambush. While ...

President Donald Trump is hiking tariffs on aluminum and steel as his administration presses countries to speed up trade talks, amid legal battles.