Friedrich Merz, vice president of the German Bundestag, has called for the immediate delivery of Taurus long-range missiles ...

Vice Chairman of the German Bundestag Omid Nuripour has called on new German Chancellor Friedrich Merz to agree on the ...

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

Friedrich Merz is widely expected to be sworn in as chancellor this morning, following a vote by lawmakers in the lower house ...

Social Democratic coalition, Friedrich Merz, suffered a shock defeat Tuesday in his bid to become chancellor after failing to ...

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

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

Germany's lower house of parliament on Tuesday convened for the election of Friedrich Merz as the country's new chancellor.

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

Wolfgang Schröder, 60 years old, professor of political science at the University of Kassel, is among the most listened-to ...

Friedrich Merz fails to secure chancellor majority in Bundestag, delaying Germany’s new government formation and triggering ...

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