His grandfather came from Turkey decades ago to work in the coal mines of the western German town of Gelsenkirchen, but ...

Mr Merz’s prosperous upbringing in the Sauerland, a well-to-do, rural Catholic region in Germany’s west, and his early career ...

Germany's next chancellor is set to be conservative leader Friedrich Merz after his party, thee Christian Democratic Union, ...

Germany’s foreign ministry has hit back at U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio after he criticized the decision to classify ...

The classification of the AfD as a 'far-right' party has had the effect of a bomb in Berlin three days before the swearing-in ...

When German conservative leader Friedrich Merz takes power next week, he will quickly have to grapple with a tough question: ...

BERLIN — The sturdiest pillars of Germany’s domestic and international identity have been pulverized with such dizzying speed ...

Germany’s incoming Chancellor Friedrich Merz is set take office on Tuesday 6th May. Columnist Brian Melican sifts through a ...

Germany ’s center-left Social Democrats have approved a deal to join a new coalition government, paving the way for ...

German election winner Friedrich Merz’s party has approved an agreement to form a coalition government with a center-left ...

The parliament will meet May 6 to elect Merz, who will need a majority of all members of the lower house to be elected as ...