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The new German chancellor has pledged to recover Berlin from years of economic stagnation, deliver on “much needed” military development and fulfil NATO defence spending targets. Newly ...

Madness has a strange, bad rap. There’s nothing saner than a madman, often just a guy who wants to escape this planet, overrun with cold hearts, slumbering lives, and events that disgust still ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The Friedrich Merz era got off to a shaky start. After years of infighting and drift in Berlin, the ...

David Steiner, a member of the FedEx board of directors, has been appointed as the next postmaster general and CEO of the United States Postal Service, the letter carrier’s board of governors ...

Today marks the birthday of the great economist Friedrich Hayek. Born on this date in 1899 in Vienna, Hayek devoted his life to economic education. Perhaps his best known work is “The Road to ...

Friedrich Merz made his world-affairs debut on Wednesday (May 5, 2025) as Germany’s new Chancellor, with plans to immediately team up with allies France and Poland to present a united European ...

Germany’s conservative leader Friedrich Merz won a nail-biter second vote in parliament on Tuesday (May 6, 2025) to become chancellor after he lost the first round in a stunning early setback.

Friedrich Merz, 69, a conservative stalwart and longtime rival of Angela Merkel, was elected Germany’s 10th postwar chancellor on Tuesday after a dramatic two-round parliamentary vote. His ...

Friedrich Merz has become Germany's new chancellor after winning a second vote in the country's parliament. He unexpectedly failed in the first parliamentary ballot on Tuesday morning - the first ...

Conservative leader Friedrich Merz has become Germany's next Chancellor after winning a second vote in parliament, just hours after an unexpected loss in the first round. Merz secured 325 votes in ...