After weeks of negotiations and ideological adjustments, Germany's conservative and centre-left parties have sealed a power-sharing deal, setting the stage for Friedrich Merz to take over as ...

Germany may reconsider its nuclear exit strategy as the opposition (CDU) investigates the potential reactivation of six recently shuttered nuclear power plants, ...

Germany stands at a political and economic crossroads. The elevation of Friedrich Merz, leader of the Christian Democratic ...

Germany's conservative and center-left parties are eager to reach a coalition deal, given the many uncertainties abroad. One ...

Germany's presumptive next leader Friedrich Merz has an "absolute will to power," former chancellor Angela Merkel said on ...

The AfD became the first German nationalist party to become the most popular since the foundation of the modern republic.

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German conservatives under Friedrich Merz clinched a coalition deal with the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) on Wednesday, ...

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

Skip next section What's in the coalition agreement? April 9, 2025 What's in the coalition agreement? In their 144-page coalition contract , Germany's two big centrist parties have vowed the following ...

Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz has pledged to strengthen Germany's role on the European and world stage at a time US ...

Angela Merkel is the Chancellor of Germany and has been since 2005. Merkel is the leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and entered politics after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.