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.

LOS ANGELES — Mayor Karen Bass appeared to be on the path to an easy reelection, with no serious challengers in sight after a relatively drama-free first two years in office. But that was before ...

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 ...

Merz is set to take over as leader of Europe's top economy just as US President Donald Trump has sparked global trade turmoil and raised fears about future transatlantic security ties. Asked at a ...

The leader of Germany’s Christian Democratic Union party Friedrich Merz has sealed a deal to form a new government with the country’s Social Democrats. The new government’s priorities are to ...

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 ...

BERLIN — Conservative leader Friedrich Merz is on course to become post-World War II Germany's 10th chancellor after finalizing a deal Wednesday to form a new government. Merz, 69, who will ...

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 ...

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 ...