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The panel breaks down the headlines of recent Bundestag elections in Germany. The conservative leader Friedrich Merz, who won the elections, says he aiming to close a coalition agreement with the ...

Merz left open what "ways and means" there could be to avoid such an arrest. In any case, Netanyahu used the call with Merz once again to clarify his view of the situation.

In Germany, too, the debate has turned to how the government can resurrect the country’s hollowed-out armed forces. Friedrich Merz, leader of the CDU and the man pipped to become the next chancellor, ...

Germany's conservatives led by election winner Friedrich Merz held first talks Friday with the Social Democrats on forming a coalition government as the country faces multiple challenges at home ...

Friedrich Merz, left, leader of the Christian Democratic Union, CDU, arrives for a faction meeting of the Christian Union party's lawmaker at the parliament Bundestag in Berlin, Germany, Tuesday, Feb.

Friedrich Merz is on track to become the next chancellor of Germany after an early exit poll put his centre-right CDU/CSU bloc in the lead. Reacting to the early results, Mr Merz said he would ...

BERLIN - French President Emmanuel Macron and Germany's conservative chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz agreed during a meeting in Paris to open a new chapter in Franco-German relations ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Hours after Friedrich Merz's conservatives won Germany's national election, he sent the outgoing Social Democrat government a memorandum dictating how to cooperate during the ...

France's Macron and Germany's Merz Agree New Chapter in Relations, Source Says BERLIN (Reuters) - French President Emmanuel Macron and Germany's conservative chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz ...

But Merz's underwhelming election win, with just 28.5% of the vote, left him facing the spectre of an obstructive parliament given the surge in public support for far-right and far-left parties.