Mr. Merz’s tougher stance on immigration has been seen as an attempt to gain some section of right-wing voters, especially in east Germany. In light of a knife attack carried out by an Afghan ...

The German chancellor-in-waiting, Friedrich Merz, has won a vote in parliament to allow a huge increase in state borrowing that is set to super-charge the country’s military spending. The ...

For ten years, Friedrich Merz was Chairman of the Atlantik-Brücke — a non-partisan organization for the cultivation of American-German relations. Germany was already in bad standing with Trump ...

Germany’s Friedrich Merz, poised to be his country’s next chancellor, said he thinks the explosive exchange between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and President Trump on Friday ...

Merz’s conservatives and the Social Democratic Party (SPD), who are in talks to form a centrist coalition after last month’s election, want to create a 500-billion-euro ($546bn) fund for ...

Mr. Hermsmeier is a journalist who writes about Germany’s politics and society. Friedrich Merz didn’t waste time. Having led his party, the Christian Democrats, to first place in Germany’s ...

Friedrich Merz, poised to become Germany’s next chancellor, is charting an unexpected course in relations with President Trump’s administration. Unlike other European leaders rushing to curry ...

German centre-right leader Friedrich Merz is not yet chancellor but, 10 days after his party’s election victory, he has vowed to spend “whatever it takes” to shore up Germany’s defence and ...

Conservative leader Friedrich Merz said the next German government would have to cut costs despite his proposed €500 billion ($543 billion) debt-backed financial package. "We will have to cut ...

BERLIN — For Friedrich Merz, the hard part begins now. The incoming conservative chancellor began coalition talks with the Social Democrats by giving them exactly what center-left parties have always ...

Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz wants to forge a ruling coalition with the SPD by April 20 but both sides have emphasised getting the substance of the talks right rather than toiling under ...

Germany’s conservative CDU/CSU bloc under chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz and the Social Democrats are set to start exploratory talks on a coalition on Friday, said people familiar with the ...