But, although he will not become chancellor for some weeks, Friedrich Merz, who won Germany’s election on February 23rd, has ...

Forget the back-slapping pol ready to banter about the Bundesliga; Friedrich Merz is a former corporate lawyer who wrote a ...

Having led his party, the Christian Democrats, to first place in Germany’s election last month, Mr. Merz swiftly assumed the ...

Already, Merz has pledged to increase defense spending and put Paris, Warsaw, and London at the lead of a new policy to shore ...

It continues to spark controversy after the ballot. The far-right AfD accused Friedrich Merz, leader of the winning center-right CDU-CSU alliance, of breaking a key election promise even before ...

Ein anderer hatte das durchgestrichen und hingeschrieben ... dass sie mit der CDU mitregieren wollen und Friedrich Merz als Bundeskanzler akzeptieren. Ich denke, viele Wähler der Grünen ...

Hours after Friedrich Merz's conservatives won Germany's national election, he sent the outgoing Social Democrat government a memorandum dictating how to cooperate during the transition period before ...

An diesen beiden Männern hängt das Schicksal Deutschlands: CDU-Chef Friedrich Merz (69) und SPD-Chef Lars Klingbeil (47). Sie müssen eine schwarz-rote Regierung hinkriegen. Ausgerechnet diese ...

Paul Hockenos is a journalist and author based in Berlin. His most recent book is “Berlin Calling: A Story of Anarchy, Music, the Wall, and the Birth of the New Berlin.” ...

Bis Ostern will Friedrich Merz seine neue Koalition gebildet haben. Etwas anderes als ein Bündnis aus Union und SPD kommt eigentlich nicht infrage. «Merz weiss das auch, möchte aber trotzdem ...