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.

Friedrich Merz, the leader of the Christian Democrats, has ruled out a coalition with the far-right Alternative for Germany ...

Negotiators from German election winner Friedrich Merz's conservative bloc and the centre-left Social Democrats started ...

Election winner Friedrich Merz said on Friday he was open to reforming Germany's legally prescribed spending limits as his ...

AfD leader Alice Weidel accuses Germany's likely future chancellor Friedrich Merz of "election fraud." She says Merz promised to "close the borders" but did the opposite. Is that true?

The hundreds of billions of euros figures kicking around are between one-third and four-fifths of the entire United States ...

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

Germany’s 2025 election results mark a right-wing shift, reshaping European politics and US-EU relations. As CDU and AfD gain ...

The conservative CDU led by Friedrich Merz won Germany's 2025 election. Here's a look at the wins and losses, seats in parliament, voter demographics and possible coalition outcomes.

Germany's conservative bloc and the Social Democrats (SPD) have started exploratory talks aimed at forming a new government ...

Opposition to the status quo must not be monopolized by the right-wing extremist visions of parties like Alternative für ...

It’s not just in Britain that defence spending is top of the agenda. In Germany, too, the debate has turned to how the ...