Friedrich Merz, Germany’s new chancellor, is a man in a hurry. The centre-Right Christian Democrats (CDU) leader has met his deadline of forming a government by Easter, something almost unheard ...

Markus Soeder, chairman of Bavarian's Christian Social Union party and Friedrich Merz, Christian Democratic Union party chairman, shake hands after reaching an agreement between their parties on a ...

Germany has formed a new political coalition deal under the conservative leader Friedrich Merz who is the country's chancellor-in-waiting. The alliance is among the Christian Democratic Union ...

BERLIN: German conservatives under Friedrich Merz agreed a coalition deal with the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) on Wednesday, aiming to revive growth in Europe's largest economy just as a global ...

BERLIN: Germany's next leader, the conservative Friedrich Merz, vowed Wednesday (Apr 9) to "move the country forward again" by boosting the economy and defence as he presented a deal to launch his ...

Friedrich Merz of the CDU is expected to become the next chancellor, replacing Olaf Scholz after Germany's center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and center-left Social Democrats agreed to ...

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German Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz has unveiled a new coalition deal between the country’s two major centrist parties in a bold and optimistic speech in Berlin on Wednesday, hours after ...

Even before taking office, Friedrich Merz and his conservative Christian Democratic Union have seen their ratings plummet while the far-right Alternative for Germany, or AfD, became the country ...

Friedrich Merz – now expected to become chancellor in May – has said US tariffs, market chaos, and war in Ukraine all made a coalition deal more urgent. Markus Soeder, leader of the Christian ...