Europe must seek to “achieve independence” from the United States, Germany’s likely next chancellor Friedrich Merz said after ...

An election win for Germany's conservatives has eased concerns of political gridlock in Europe's biggest economy, but failed ...

Friedrich Merz is on course to become post-World War II Germany’s 10th chancellor, the culmination of a yearslong political ...

German stocks rose modestly after a solid election victory for the conservative Friedrich Merz left him with a clear path to ...

Germany’s economy is stalled and its politics fractured. But it sees an opening for a new chancellor to lead Europe’s ...

Four candidates are running to be Germany’s next leader: incumbent Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Friedrich Merz, current Vice ...

Landau an der Isar, Kempten and Pfarrkirchen – these small towns may be unfamiliar to English, and indeed many German, ears.

At the most newsworthy Munich Security Conference in recent memory last weekend, Germany’s likely next chancellor did all he ...

European shares were poised to snap their longest weekly winning streak in nearly a year on Friday, on elevated bond yields ...

Friedrich Merz and his party won, Elon Musk didn’t seem to move voters, and more lessons from an early German vote with big ...

Friedrich Merz, the presumptive chancellor of Germany, has confirmed he will seek a coalition with the social democratic SPD ...