Europe must seek to “achieve independence” from the United States, Germany’s likely next chancellor Friedrich Merz said after ...

German's Friedrich Merz has pledged to achieve "independence" from the United States after his centre-right alliance won ...

Merz is expected to become the country’s next chancellor after his Christian Democrats secured over 28% of the vote.

Conservative leader sharply criticizes Trump administration for its attempts to interfere in German elections and also raises ...

Friedrich Merz, set to become Germany's next chancellor after his opposition conservatives won the national election on ...

Romania's interim president Ilie Bolojan and prime minister Marcel Ciolacu have congratulated Friedrich Merz and the Christian Democratic alliance CDU/CSU for winning the parliamentary elections in ...

Merz, leader of the CDU/CSU alliance, argued during the election campaign that Europe needed to take more responsibility for ...

Friedrich Merz’s conservatives triumphed in Germany’s elections, obtaining over 28% of the vote, as the far-right AfD gained ...

Friedrich Merz says ‘intervention’ from Washington ‘no less drastic, dramatic, and ultimately no less brazen, than the ...

Polls have opened in Germany's parliamentary election that was brought forward by the collapse of Chancellor Olaf Scholz' ...

The centre-right CDU has emerged as the biggest party in the German election, making Merz the most likely to lead a ...

Merz, 69, now faces difficult and time-consuming coalition discussions after the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) ...