Germany’s legislature, the Bundestag, on Tuesday elected Friedrich Merz, leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), as ...

Germany's conservative leader Friedrich Merz won a nail-biting second parliamentary vote Tuesday to become chancellor after ...

Merz, 69, who led his conservatives to a federal election victory in February and has signed a coalition deal with the centre ...

BERLIN (AP) — Conservative leader Friedrich Merz succeeded Tuesday in becoming Germany’s next chancellor, drawing applause and a palpable sense of relief in the parliament chamber after a historic ...

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

Germany’s Merz confirmed as chancellor in second parliamentary vote after shock first-round defeat - New leader suffered ...

Friedrich Merz, a conservative Christian Democrat, is expected to become Germany’s next chancellor. But on Tuesday, he failed ...

The morning of May 6th was meant to be a routine final stage in the choreography of the handover of power to Friedrich Merz ...

Merz won confirmation of MPs in a second round of voting after becoming the first ever chancellor candidate to lose in the first round.

Friedrich Merz's unprecedented first-round failure in the vote to make him German chancellor on Tuesday gave a boost to the ...