The likely next chancellor is unpopular, and his country’s economy has stalled. But his penchant for risks could help lead to ...

South Korea's Industry Minister Ahn Duk-geun will travel to Washington D.C. from Wednesday through to Friday to press again ...

Friedrich Merz is on course to become post-World War II Germany’s 10th chancellor, the culmination of a yearslong political ...

Germany's conservative election winner Friedrich Merz said Monday he would seek talks with the centre-left to speedily build ...

Friedrich Merz said that Europe needed to “achieve independence from the United States, step by step.” That won’t be easy, ...

Merz’s Conservative CDU emerged as the largest party in Sunday’s federal elections, winning 208 seats in the 630-seat German ...

The German electorate has backed conservative Friedrich Merz to lead Germany, and by extension Europe, during a decisive stress test in trans-Atlantic relations. Can he rise to expectations?

OP-ED. The likely future German chancellor may be a hard-line conservative, but he could well be the man to transform the country and revitalize Europe, writes international relations specialist ...

Despite significant gains for the far right, the election may just result in a German government able to take on a leadership role in Europe.

Friedrich Merz looks poised to form a coalition between his center-right alliance and the center-left Social Democrats, but ...