Friedrich Merz — the leader of the victorious Christian Democratic Union-Christian Social Union alliance — is a U.S.-loving ...

The German federal polls have closed, and the exit polls appear to have handed the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) a victory ...

Whether he can form a strong coalition remains to be seen, but whatever he does will be an essential part of Europe’s ...

Merz, a man who has never held a government role, is preparing to take the reins in Germany just as the country faces ...

How long all of that would take remains to be seen; in the past, it has varied greatly from government to government. In 2017 ...

German voters are heading to the polls Sunday for a national election. The race pits the incumbent chancellor against the ...

The Christian-Democratic center-right party (CDU/CSU), led by Friedrich Merz, will return to be the ruling party with 220 ...

Germany’s conservatives won Sunday’s elections, with their leader Friedrich Merz set to become the next Chancellor, followed ...