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

Lars Klingbeil, Germany's next vice chancellor and finance minister, is an experienced Social Democrat lawmaker who has sat ...

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

The Social Democratic Party's Lars Klingbeil has been tapped to become Germany's next finance minister in the incoming ...

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

The SPD’s participation in government under Merz marks a new stage in the decline of the party, whose history began more than ...

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 ...

Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz and his CDU won Germany's election, yet his personal popularity is low — and getting lower. Most Germans don't trust him, not least because of his approach ...

Friedrich Merz is poised to become Germany's next chancellor on May 6, pending approvals from his party and the SPD. Despite winning the election, Merz faces low popularity, with polls showing ...

Germany's far-right AfD party topped a major poll for the first time on Wednesday in a sign of growing dissatisfaction with ...