Senior officials in the Trump administration have lashed out at Berlin after Germany’s domestic intelligence agency last week ...

Friedrich Merz, a conservative Christian Democrat, became Germany’s next chancellor after a surprising setback in parliament ...

The far-right Alternative für Deutschland called for fresh elections after Friedrich Merz's initial defeat in his bid to ...

Representatives for Germany's center-right Union bloc and the center-left Social Democrats on Monday formally signed a ...

Friedrich Merz’s bid to become Germany’s 10th chancellor has failed in the first round of voting in parliament by six votes.

Mr. Merz needed two rounds of voting to become chancellor after a surprising defeat in Parliament hours earlier that ...

Merz' appointment ends six months of political deadlock in the country after the collapse of Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s ...

Conservative Friedrich Merz is set to be sworn in on Tuesday as Germany's new chancellor at a critical juncture as the ...

Germany's domestic intelligence service has classified the popular Alternative for Germany party as "extremist," allowing for ...

Merz was elected chancellor Tuesday during a second vote in parliament, hours after he suffered a historic defeat in the first round.

The party of outgoing Chancellor Olaf Scholtz ... with 328 of the Bundestag’s 630 seats. The Union and Social Democrats have governed Germany together before: once in the 1960s, and then in ...