Germany was long a beacon of stability in Europe, its politics often reassuringly boring."Germany and Europe need a strong ...

Mr. Merz needed two rounds of voting to become chancellor after a surprising defeat in Parliament hours earlier that threatened to hobble his new government.

"EUR/USD fell briefly after the news that Friedrich Merz had not received the necessary votes for the 'chancellor majority', ...

"Breaking News Special" on Das Erste. Already in the afternoon, starting at 3:00 PM, Das Erste covered the explosive events ...

Merz scored an absolute majority of 325 against 289 in the second secret vote in the lower house of parliament ...

The political landscape of Germany witnessed an extraordinary event on October 24, 2023, as Friedrich Merz became the first Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany to be elected in a second ...

While he rebounded in the second round, former Mayer Brown counsel Friedrich Merz's power and influence may be significantly ...

Germany's conservative new Chancellor Friedrich Merz has pledged to end months of political paralysis and rebuild Berlin's ...

A Bild daily headline called the outcome of a day of high political drama "the Happy End ... my congratulations on your election," Steinmeier told Merz at Bellevue Palace in Berlin.