The first step towards Mr Merz being effective on the European stage is for him to forge a coalition with the centre-left ...

European Union leaders are holding emergency summit talks to beef up their own military defenses and make sure Ukraine will ...

Merz’s Conservative CDU emerged as the largest party in Sunday’s federal elections, winning 208 seats in the 630-seat German ...

The Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis called the election result a "decisive victory for our political family, for ...

Compared to last October, the vote for the CDU/CSU is down slightly vis a vis the polls, the AfD have not rallied as much as ...

Incoming German leader will hold high-stakes talks with French president as Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump hover over Europe ...

The victory of the Christian Democratic leader in the February 23 German parliamentary elections was met with relief by ...

Friedrich Merz is on course to become post-World War II Germany’s ... that we shouldn’t expect a resounding common EU policy, ...

Such a plan would mark a step-change in Germany’s traditionally conservative approach to public borrowing. Berlin in 2009 ...

Germany faces its second change of leader in less than four years after the head of the center-right opposition won Sunday’s ...

The European Union is getting good at adapting to unprecedented circumstances. Over the last five years, the 27 member ...

Conservative leader Friedrich Merz has triumphed at Germany’s ballot boxes, paving his way to become the next chancellor. His ...