Such talks often drag on for weeks if not months in Germany, but Merz is in a hurry to reach a deal with Europe's biggest economy facing economic malaise and an upheaval in relations with the U.S.

Negotiators from German election winner Friedrich Merz’s conservative bloc and the center-left Social Democrats have started ...

German election winner Friedrich Merz's conservatives and outgoing Chancellor Olaf Scholz's Social Democrats (SPD) held "open ...

Should an AfD-led Germany withdraw from NATO, the alliance would surely collapse, as would an EU without Germany. Instead, a ...

Friedrich Merz aims to swiftly form government after his conservative bloc's February 23 election win. SPD leader Lars ...

In Germany’s special election Sunday, seven months earlier than the normal date because the trio-run government collapsed, ...

Hours after Friedrich Merz's conservatives won Germany's national election, he sent the outgoing Social Democrat government a ...

A center-right chancellor should be good news for the GOP. Musk and Vance shouldn’t have meddled.

Tuesday on the RealClearPolitics Podcast, Carl Cannon spoke with historian and Council on Foreign Relations fellow Liana Fix ...

Friedrich Merz, chairman of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), is poised to be nominated as Germany’s next chancellor, according to preliminary results ...

Germany’s conservatives won the national election on Sunday, while the far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party ...