Friedrich Merz promised tougher measures to tackle illegal migration, including by turning away people at Germany's borders ...

German election winner Friedrich Merz's conservatives and the Social Democrats (SPD) have concluded preliminary talks towards ...

Former envoy Wu Ken is optimistic about likely chancellor’s focus on trade and economy, and perception of Beijing as ...

Germany's future chancellor, Friedrich Merz, said on Saturday that his conservative CDU party has reached a preliminary ...

The German chancellor-in-waiting said he would like talks with France and Britain about sharing weapons, but not as a ...

In Germany, coalition governments are typically formed through a two-step process: parties first engage in exploratory talks ...

German election winner Friedrich Merz's conservatives and Social Democrats have completed preliminary coalition talks. They ...

German parties negotiating the country's next government following the February 23 election took the first step on Sunday by ...

German election winner Friedrich Merz is leading coalition talks with the SPD, focusing on illegal migration, economic support, and strengthened defenses. The CDU/CSU and SPD face time constraints to ...

Negotiators from German election winner Friedrich Merz’s conservative bloc and the center-left Social Democrats have started ...

Forget the back-slapping pol ready to banter about the Bundesliga; Friedrich Merz is a former corporate lawyer who wrote a ...

Hours after Friedrich Merz's conservatives won Germany's national election, he sent the outgoing Social Democrat government a ...