The unprecedented bombshell Bundestag vote on Tuesday that briefly paused the confirmation of Friedrich Merz as Germany’s new ...

GERMANY’S new government will now turn away undocumented immigrants, scrapping former Chancellor Angela Merkel’s “open door” ...

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

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

Conservative leader Friedrich Merz has won a parliament vote to become Germany's next chancellor at the second attempt. Merz ...

Merz was six votes short of being elected by the majority of Germany’s 630 parliamentarians. His coalition, which consists of ...

Gains by the far right and the far-left limited coalition options, paradoxically giving the defeated Social Democrats ...

For the first time since the founding of the Federal Republic, two rounds of voting were necessary to elect a chancellor.

Christian Democratic Union leader Friedrich Merz will visit the Elysée for his first trip abroad on Wednesday. Emmanuel ...

Conservative leader scrapes together just enough votes to claim Germany’s top job — but he’s weakened already.

Friedrich Merz succeeded in his bid to become the next German chancellor during a second vote in parliament, hours after he ...