Languages: English. Germany's conservative leader Friedrich Merz has been elected as the country's next chancellor in a crucial second vote after narrowly losing the first round of voting in a ...

BERLIN, May 6 (Reuters) - German conservative leader Friedrich Merz failed to secure enough parliamentary votes to become chancellor on ... to a federal election victory in February and signed ...

May 6 (UPI) --Center-right politician Friedrich Merz was elected as German chancellor Tuesday in a second vote just hours after his historic defeat in a bid to lead the country. "I accept my ...

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BERLIN — Friedrich Merz succeeded Tuesday in his ... center-left Social Democrats led by outgoing Chancellor Olaf Scholz, who lost the national election in February. Upon announcing the second ...

BERLIN (AP) — Conservative leader Friedrich Merz was elected in a second ballot by lawmakers as post-World War II Germany's 10th chancellor on Tuesday — hours after he failed to win the first ...

By all accounts, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz's visit to Donald Trump in the Oval Office was a success. But the bar was low. There are plenty of potential pitfalls for the trans-Atlantic ...

Volker Resing, who wrote the recent biography “Friedrich Merz: His Path to Power," says that Merz would possibly be “the most international chancellor ... and was finally elected party ...