Frederic Merz commented on Donald Trump's shifting views regarding NATO and Europe, stating that it is essential for ...

BRUSSELS—Facing the possibility of a fundamental disengagement under US President Donald Trump, European Union leaders opened a day of emergency summit talks Thursday to beef up their own military ...

Having led his party, the Christian Democrats, to first place in Germany’s election last month, Mr. Merz swiftly assumed the ...

Already, Merz has pledged to increase defense spending and put Paris, Warsaw, and London at the lead of a new policy to shore ...

The results of Germany’s general election show that the center-right political party, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), ...

Friedrich Merz is on course to become post-World War II Germany’s 10th chancellor, the culmination of a yearslong political career that was once sidelined by his party’s iconic leader BERLIN -- ...

Negotiators from German election winner Friedrich Merz’s conservative bloc and the center-left Social Democrats have started exploratory talks on a possible coalition government ...

PEOPLE has an exclusive peek at rare behind-the-scenes photos from the set on 'The Sound of Music,' as the beloved Julie ...

At the helm is Friedrich Merz, the man slated to be the next Chancellor ... in a country where parties have aimed to keep parties with extremist ideologies out of power after World War II, in what is ...

Provisional results confirm that mainstream conservatives led by Friedrich Merz won Germany's national election, while a far-right party surged to become the nation’s second-largest.

Opposition leader Friedrich Merz claimed victory and Chancellor Olaf Scholz conceded defeat. Alternative for Germany, or AfD, had the strongest showing for a far-right party since World War II. Merz’s ...

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