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 ...

Friedrich Merz, Christian Democratic Union party chairman, addresses the media after reaching an agreement between their parties on a coalition for a new German government at a news conference in ...

MOSCOW, April 14 (Reuters) - The Kremlin criticised Germany's chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz on Monday over comments suggesting Germany might send Taurus long-range missiles to Ukraine.

BERLIN (Reuters) -Germany's would-be chancellor, Friedrich Merz, sought to regain the political initiative on Monday, promising renewed focus on competitiveness after a bruising weekend that saw ...

BERLIN — Friedrich Merz has yet to begin his chancellorship, but he’s already feeling the heat. The incoming leader is facing slumping approval ratings and a barrage of criticism from parts of his ...

After what by German standards was a relatively swift negotiation, the centre-right Christian Democratic bloc, led by Friedrich Merz, sewed up its coalition talks with the Social Democrats (spd ...

Germany's likely incoming chancellor, Friedrich Merz, said Sunday that the country is open to supplying Ukraine with long-range Taurus missiles, but only with the support of its European partners, ...

Germany’s incoming chancellor, Friedrich Merz, said that his government will turn away asylum seekers at its land borders and promised a “repatriation offensive” against illegal immigrants.

Friedrich Merz's Christian Democrats (CDU), the Christian Social Union (CSU) and the Social Democrats (SPD) last week struck a coalition deal. Germany's parliament plans to meet on 6 May to elect ...