First failed vote highlights Germany’s new head of government has a thin majority to deliver an ambitious programme ...

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

Friedrich Merz is widely expected to be sworn in as chancellor this morning, following a vote by lawmakers in the lower house ...

Conservative leader scrapes together just enough votes to claim Germany’s top job — but he’s weakened already.

The Bundestag elected CDU leader Friedrich Merz as Chancellor of Germany on the second attempt. The previous vote ended in ...

Social Democratic coalition, Friedrich Merz, suffered a shock defeat Tuesday in his bid to become chancellor after failing to ...

Friedrich Merz succeeded in his bid to become the next German chancellor during a second vote in parliament, hours after he ...

For the first time since the founding of the Federal Republic, two rounds of voting were necessary to elect a chancellor.

Wolfgang Schröder, 60 years old, professor of political science at the University of Kassel, is among the most listened-to ...

German stocks fell and bund yields rose after Friedrich Merz failed to secure a Bundestag majority, marking a historic ...

Friedrich Merz fails to secure chancellor majority in Bundestag, delaying Germany’s new government formation and triggering ...

Friedrich Merz has secured a majority in the second round of voting at the German Bundestag, averting a constitutional crisis. https://p.dw.com/p/4txyR Merz (center ...