Friedrich Merz now heads the German government. He has vowed to make foreign policy a top priority, visiting France and Poland on his first day in office.During his election campaign, Friedrich Merz ...

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While already planned, the trip comes only a day after Merz was elected chancellor by parliament on the second round of ...

BERLIN - New German Chancellor Friedrich Merz sets off on his first trip abroad on Wednesday to France and Poland in a bid to ...

“They’re probably thinking in scenarios,” Dominik Tolksdorf, a transatlantic expert at the German Council on Foreign Relations, said of Merz’s talks with his European counterparts. “The worst thing ...

“Mr. Merz is now the hope of Europe,” said Thomas Kleine-Brockhoff, director of the German Council on Foreign Relations, citing the void that Germany, Europe’s largest economy, left after ...

French President Emmanuel Macron has said he is hoping for a revitalization of Franco-German relations after a new government ...

head of the Berlin office of the European Council on Foreign Relations think-tank. "That hope has been dashed." Merz said he preferred to simply get down to work rather than puzzle over the ...

Conservative leader Friedrich Merz has been elected Germany’s chancellor ... head of the Berlin office of the European Council on Foreign Relations think tank. “That hope has been dashed.

During his election campaign, Friedrich Merz complained frequently that Germany's closest foreign policy partnership — with France — had been neglected under the government of his predecessor, Olaf ...