Mr. Merz led his party to victory in February’s elections by promising to curb migration, to revitalize the economy and to ...

Breaking from his dithering predecessors Scholz and Merkel, Merz is playing an unusually active role as the defender of ...

Chancellor Friedrich Merz said that German troops could participate in a coalition to secure a demilitarized zone in Ukraine ...

Just as the Sudetenland was not enough in 1938, Putin will not stop,” Merz told a party conference in Germany.

Trust in conservative leader Merz fell to 32% in December—down 6 percentage points from 38% when the government formed in May 2025—according to a Forsa poll - Anadolu Ajansı ...

The chancellor is pursuing a risky quest for European leadership, and last week’s setback over Russian reparations is unlikely to knock him off course ...

Under post-ceasefire guarantees provided by the United States and Europe to Ukraine, peacekeepers could in certain ...

Friedrich Merz (left) and his predecessor Olaf Scholz at a handover ceremony at the Chancellery in Berlin on Tuesday - FILIP SINGER/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock Friedrich ...

EADaily, December 17th, 2025. As a result of the recent negotiations in Berlin on the settlement of the Russian-Ukrainian ...

BERLIN (AP) — Conservative leader Friedrich Merz was elected in a second ballot by lawmakers as post-World War II Germany's 10th chancellor on Tuesday — hours after he failed to win the first round in ...

Germany’s machinery industry is headed for its longest production downturn in over three decades, exposing the broader vulnerabilities weighing on Europe’s biggest economy.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has again urged fellow EU leaders to agree to use Russian state assets frozen in the bloc to ...