German Chancellor Friedrich Merz spoke with U.S. President Donald Trump on the phone on Thursday about arms deliveries to ...

Four members of the Bundestag from the Green Party have appealed to German Chancellor Friedrich Merz to increase funding for ...

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz believes that Russia's brutal attacks on Ukraine and US President Donald Trump's talks with ...

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz urged the European Union on Thursday to settle a tariff dispute with the United States as ...

The incoming German chancellor campaigned as a debt hawk. Then a source told him about Trump’s plans for NATO.

Recriminations flew in Berlin on Thursday after Chancellor Friedrich Merz's government failed to agree on a nationwide cut in ...

Nuclear deterrence cooperation between France and Germany is a matter for the "very, very long term," German Chancellor ...

Friedrich Merz, chancellor candidate of Germany's Christian Democrats, reacts following the announcement of initial results in snap federal parliamentary elections Feb. 23, 2025, in Berlin, Germany.

BERLIN (Reuters) -Germany wants to retain the EU's Schengen area which allows free movement but that can only work if it is ...

Friedrich Merz has been elected as Germany's next chancellor with 325 votes. That means nearly every lawmaker in his coalition voted in his favor. Another 289 lawmakers voted against, ...

BERLIN, May 6 (Reuters) - German conservative leader Friedrich Merz failed to secure enough parliamentary votes to become chancellor on Tuesday in a major blow that threw politics in Europe's ...

Friedrich Merz’s halting path to the chancellor’s office inflamed his challenges at home and abroad, including a threat from the far right. Listen to this article · 5:44 min Learn more.