Already, Merz has pledged to increase defense spending and put Paris, Warsaw, and London at the lead of a new policy to shore ...

The real winners of Germany’s election are sitting in Moscow. Despite Friedrich Merz’s Christian Democrats (CDU) technically ...

But Angela Merkel, then the party's overall leader, blocked his path, and after the CDU lost the 2002 election, replaced him as parliamentary leader as well. "He embodied the more traditional ...

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CDU celebrations are muted because a 28.52pc vote share means a weaker negotiating position in coalition with the centre-Left ...

The surging far-right is a symptom of a world slipping out of progressive control – and comprehension.

From Danijel Višević, General Partner, World Fund, Former communications adviser to chancellor Angela Merkel, Berlin, Germany ...

The Christian Democrat, whose party won the parliamentary elections, quickly began negotiating with the Social Democrats to ...

The Christian Democrats are forming a new coalition, with plans that include a possible restart of nuclear power.

The already strained relationship between former Chancellor Angela Merkel and the current CDU election winner Friedrich Merz ...

Merz expressed concern over changing relations with Washington under the Trump administration, emphasizing the need for ...