Germany's Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz (center) shakes hands in Berlin on Wednesday with leaders of the Social Democratic Party and Christian Social Union Party, after reaching an ...

BERLIN — Incoming Chancellor Friedrich Merz's conservatives and their Social Democratic Party (SPD) counterparts have struck a coalition deal, but party leaders haven't revealed who will lead key ...

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 ...

Chairman of one of Pakistan's largest domestic conglomerates, the AKD Group, Aqeel Karim Dhedhi, said on Wednesday (April 9) that Pakistan has not been hit as hard by global tariffs as other countries ...

Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel holds a picture of her and Friedrich Merz as she speaks during her appearance as a guest on Deutschlandfunk's live radio show "Studio 9" at the Humboldt Forum.

Simply sign up to the German politics myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. After winning Germany’s elections, Friedrich Merz vowed to form a coalition government in two months — 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: 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 ...

Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz announced Wednesday that the Christian Democrats and Social Democrats have agreed to adopt a stricter approach to irregular migration in their coalition deal. At a ...

According to the UN refugee agency, more than 24,665 Afghans have left Pakistan since April 1, 10,741 of whom were deported. "People say the police will come and carry out raids. That is the fear.

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