Friedrich Merz and his conservative Christian Democratic Union must now persuade Germans that he can fix the economy and get ...

After winning Germany’s election on February 23rd, Mr Merz had shocked observers by questioning nato’s future under Mr Trump and declaring that Europe must “achieve independence from America”. But ...

The key positions in the future German government will be held by politicians who are generally favorable to Kyiv.

German conservatives under Friedrich Merz clinched a coalition deal with the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) on Wednesday, ...

In Germany, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and the Christian Social Union (CSU), along with the Social Democratic Party ...