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 ...

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 ...

POLITICO breaks down what the conservatives’ victory means for EU policy and cooperation ― from nuclear weapons to cannabis.

A marked moment of political severance came at the end of January, when Friedrich Merz pushed through a non-binding motion on ...

Friedrich Merz, leader of the conservative Christian Democratic Union, has vowed to bring stronger leadership in Europe at a ...

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