Friedrich Merz, a conservative Christian Democrat, became Germany’s next chancellor after a surprising setback in parliament ...

Senior officials in the Trump administration have lashed out at Berlin after Germany’s domestic intelligence agency last week ...

The far-right Alternative für Deutschland called for fresh elections after Friedrich Merz's initial defeat in his bid to ...

Representatives for Germany's center-right Union bloc and the center-left Social Democrats on Monday formally signed a ...

BERLIN (AP) — Conservative leader Friedrich Merz succeeded Tuesday in becoming Germany’s next chancellor, drawing applause ...

Merz was elected chancellor Tuesday during a second vote in parliament, hours after he suffered a historic defeat in the first round.

His countrymen, he declares, will have to ‘engage’ with the AfD, ‘factually and on substance.’ ...

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

(CN) — Alternative for Germany, a far-right anti-immigrant party that now tops opinion polls only two months after it scored ...

Germany's domestic intelligence service has classified the popular Alternative for Germany party as "extremist," allowing for ...

Conservative Friedrich Merz is set to be sworn in on Tuesday as Germany's new chancellor at a critical juncture as the ...

The Social Democratic Party’s Lars Klingbeil has been tapped to become Germany’s next finance minister in the incoming ...