Ein CDU-Politiker gibt zu, bei der Wahl nicht Friedrich Merz gefolgt zu sein. Berlin – Vieles ist neu ... für die AfD seit ihrem erstmaligen Einzug in den Bundestag stets zu hoch. 2017 scheiterte ...

Friedrich Merz is set to become Germany's next chancellor. He has a checkered history in German politics — from challenging Angela Merkel to causing controversy by aligning with the far right.

BERLIN — Germany's would-be next chancellor, Friedrich Merz, won lawmakers' approval Tuesday for ambitious plans to loosen the nation's strict debt rules for higher defense spending as doubts ...

For ten years, Friedrich Merz was Chairman of the Atlantik-Brücke — a non-partisan organization for the cultivation of American-German relations. Germany was already in bad standing with Trump ...

Lawmakers have embraced plans unveiled by Friedrich Merz, soon to take the reins as Germany's new chancellor, for an enormous boost to the country's military budget, signaling a dramatic ...

The German chancellor-in-waiting, Friedrich Merz, has won a vote in parliament to allow a huge increase in state borrowing that is set to super-charge the country’s military spending. The ...

BERLIN — Germany’s would-be next chancellor, Friedrich Merz, won lawmakers’ approval Tuesday for ambitious plans to loosen the nation’s strict debt rules for higher defense spending as ...

The approval in the Bundestag hands conservative leader Friedrich Merz a huge boost, giving the chancellor-in-waiting a windfall of hundreds of billions of euros to ramp up investment after two ...

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