BERLIN (Reuters) - Friedrich Merz, a man who has never held a government role, is preparing to take the reins in Germany just ...

Germans vote in a national election on Sunday which is expected to see Friedrich Merz's conservatives regain power and the ...

Friedrich Merz faces urgent economic and geopolitical crises. But to form a coalition he needs to turn foes into friends – ...

Friedrich Merz, whose conservative party is ahead in polls before Sunday’s election, sees an “epochal rupture” with a United ...

The contenders in Germany’s election made their final appeals to voters Saturday, with opposition leader and front-runner ...

French President Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday he will travel to Washington to try to convince President Donald Trump that ...

German politicians made a last push for votes on Saturday ahead of pivotal elections, with conservatives still leading the ...

In a survey out last year, women aged 14 to 29 reported significantly less support for Merz’s party than their male peers ...

Ursula von der Leyen is about to face the most serious challenge to her leadership since she became European Commission ...

Germany’s economy is stalled and its politics fractured. But it sees an opening for a new chancellor to lead Europe’s ...

An economic slump, an immigration crisis and the lifting of a security blanket provided for decades by the U.S. are issues on ...