As Sunday’s snap federal election nears, political parties are intensifying their efforts in the final stretch to drum up ...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz will be succeeded by conservative opposition leader Friedrich Merz after his party, the ...

Leaders in Germany's likely next coalition have met to discuss Ukraine policy and security. Outgoing Foreign Minister ...

BERLIN — The opposition conservatives led by Friedrich Merz won a lackluster ... projections showed. Chancellor Olaf Scholz conceded defeat for his center-left Social Democrats after what ...

For months, Friedrich Merz has positioned himself as a kind of antidote to ... After the results came in, Chancellor Olaf Scholz announced he will not serve a post in the next government. The party ...

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

Friedrich Merz, who was forced out of politics about a decade ago, is all set to replace Olaf Scholz as next German ...