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

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

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

The centre-right CDU has emerged as the biggest party in the German election, making Merz the most likely to lead a ...

Merz aims to shift Europe away from US dependence, but rising far-right pressure and geopolitical tensions could complicate ...

European Union leaders are holding emergency talks on ways to quickly increase their military budgets after the Trump ...

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

Friedrich Merz, who is on course to become post-World War II ... that we shouldn't expect a resounding common EU policy," he ...

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 ...

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

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