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

It was the first time in Germany’s postwar history that a chancellor-designate has failed to win an absolute majority.

Vice Chairman of the German Bundestag Omid Nuripour has called on new German Chancellor Friedrich Merz to agree on the ...

Three years ago Merz returned from the political wilderness to secure the leadership of the centre-right Christian Democratic ...

The CDU party leader was confirmed as Germany's chancellor on Tuesday in a second vote after a tumultuous first round saw him ...

His countrymen, he declares, will have to ‘engage’ with the AfD, ‘factually and on substance.’ ...

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

Mr Merz’s commitment to restoring a long-absent German voice to European and international debates is not in doubt, and he ...

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

Friedrich Merz has secured a majority in the second round of voting at the German Bundestag, averting a constitutional crisis.

BERLIN (AP) — Friedrich Merz succeeded Tuesday in his bid to become the next German chancellor during a second vote in ...

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