Germany’s first female Chancellor, hailed as a leader of the free world, Merkel's departure from office was accompanied by ...

Merz, 69, promises fundamental policy shifts, including stricter migration controls and market-friendly reforms to revive ...

For Germans heading to the polls for a snap election, climate is not quite as important a factor as it used to be.

Friedrich Merz, the conservative front runner, couldn't be more different from his predecessor, Angela Merkel.

Average Germans understand their nation is in crisis — and are exasperated that it took an American leader like JD Vance to ...

And yet it is anything but guaranteed how party chairman Friedrich Merz can govern a country in which the far-right Alternative for Germany comes second, polarization hits record levels, and ...

Friedrich Merz is set to be Germany’s next chancellor as CDU-CSU leads, with his policies and AfD ties reshaping politics.

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Europe is a case in point. Vice President JD Vance delivered the painful truth at the Munich Security Conference, and the ...

German voters head to the polls in a winter election on Sunday but may not have a new government until the spring.The confident frontrunner Friedrich Merz has said he's aiming for an Easter deadline ...

This may be the year the firewall collapses. The AfD is now polling at about 22 percent nationally and seems destined for a ...