Friedrich Merz's conservatives won national election Conservatives need Chancellor Scholz's Social Democrats for coalition But Merz's imperious style is riling leading SPD politicians Merz sent ...

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 ...

Peter Aitken is a Newsweek Politics Editor based in New York. His focus is domestic U.S. politics, but he has experience covering Foreign Affairs, Business and Technology. Peter joined Newsweek in ...

Ten or 15 years ago, Friedrich Merz would have seemed a wildly unlikely candidate for the role of savior to Europe’s liberal democracy. Spoiler alert: He still does. If we flash back to the ...

German Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz is open to making concessions to the Greens to secure support for constitutional changes that would unleash hundreds of billions of euros in defense and ...

Friedrich Merz is poised to become Germany's next chancellor in a government led by the Christian Democratic Union and its sister party, the Christian Social Union. Merz has previously worked as a ...

BERLIN (AP) — Friedrich Merz, on course to become post-World War II Germany's 10th chancellor after the country's election, has vowed to prioritize European unity and the continent's security as ...

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. Hours after his election victory last Sunday, Friedrich Merz, the leader of Germany’s center-right Christian Democrats (CDU), said on national television t ...

The agreement between Friedrich Merz, the likely next chancellor, and his potential coalition partners also includes big new infrastructure spending. By Jim Tankersley Reporting from Berlin Ever ...