While Germany's chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz is already plagued by criticism and sinking poll numbers at home, his EU ...

Following his death on Monday, Pope Francis' body has been taken to lie in state at the basilica. Mourners will be able to ...

World leaders sent condolences to the Vatican following the death of Pope Francis, including German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, ...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz honoured the pope on Monday shortly after his death. "With Pope Francis, the Catholic Church ...

Outgoing German Chancellor Olaf Scholz paid a farewell visit to Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk in Warsaw on Wednesday, ...

Outgoing Chancellor Olaf Scholz has plans to visit Warsaw before expected new Chancellor Friedrich Merz is set to be sworn in ...

The trip comes as center-left Scholz is expected to soon hand over his position as chancellor to conservative Friedrich Merz.

"Germany is back on track," he added ... of the now caretaker Chancellor Olaf Scholz. "The coalition agreement is a signal of a new beginning ... for our country," said Merz, whose party won ...

Friedrich Merz, the leader of the centre-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU), is expected to become Germany's next chancellor under the agreement, replacing Olaf Scholz. Merz's two-party Union ...

Friedrich Merz of the CDU is expected to become the next chancellor, replacing Olaf Scholz after Germany's center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and center-left Social Democrats agreed to ...

But he persisted and was finally elected party leader in the third attempt, after the center-right's defeat by current Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Germany's 2021 election. Merz cemented his power by ...