Bundestag confirmed Friedrich Merz as Germany's new chancellor in a successful second vote after he unexpectedly lost an ...

Friedrich Merz has secured a majority in the second round of voting at the German Bundestag, averting a constitutional crisis ...

A German spy agency deems the party a threat to the “democratic order,” but voters say otherwise—should they be silenced, too ...

With Johann Wadephul, the center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) once again fields the German foreign minister. It is ...

Friedrich Merz fails to secure chancellor majority in Bundestag, delaying Germany’s new government formation and triggering ...

German conservative leader Friedrich Merz failed to secure enough parliamentary votes to become chancellor in a major blow.

Friedrich Merz did not receive enough votes in the first round of voting in the Bundestag for the future Chancellor of ...

Wolfgang Schröder, 60 years old, professor of political science at the University of Kassel, is among the most listened-to ...

Friedrich Merz secured Germany’s chancellorship Tuesday after overcoming an initial parliamentary defeat that had thrown his and Germany’s political future ...

First failed vote highlights Germany’s new head of government has a thin majority to deliver an ambitious programme ...

Friedrich Merz reacts after he failed to be elected new chancellor in the first voting process at the German federal ...

The CDU party leader was confirmed as Germany's chancellor on Tuesday in a second vote after a tumultuous first round saw him fall six votes short. Bundestag confirmed Friedrich Merz as Germany's ...