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

While Merz is already setting the scene for his chancellery with an unprecedented, debt-funded investment announcement, ...

Friedrich Merz is on track to be the next chancellor though his country’s traditional political stability has vanished.

After an argument between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and US President Donald Trump in the White House, German ...

With Germany's election results in, Friedrich Merz emerges as a key figure who has promised to reshape Europe-US relations ...

Friedrich Merz may have staved off the ascension of the far-right Alternative for Germany party for now, but the newly ...

But, although he will not become chancellor for some weeks, Friedrich Merz, who won Germany’s election on February 23rd, has just transformed his country with a stroke of commendable boldness.

Germany's likely next chancellor Friedrich Merz has called for ‘independence from the USA’ in his first speech after winning ...

Brendan Cole is a Newsweek Senior News Reporter based in London, UK. His focus is Russia ... on him on his X account @brendanmarkcole. Friedrich Merz, the leader of Germany's mainstream ...

Friedrich Merz says ‘intervention’ from Washington ‘no less drastic, dramatic, and ultimately no less brazen, than the intervention that we have seen from Moscow’ ...

Friedrich Merz, who is set to become the new German chancellor, has vowed to prioritise European unity and the continent’s security as it grapples with the new Trump administration and Russia ...

The far-right AfD and the Left jointly secured the one third of seats needed to block constitutional changes. Both oppose ...