New German Chancellor Friedrich Merz talks about his private exchanges with U.S. President Donald Trump, his own lack of ...

New German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has expressed skepticism regarding a potential ban on the far-right AfD, which was ...

The far-right Alternative für Deutschland called for fresh elections after Friedrich Merz's initial defeat in his bid to ...

Friedrich Merz, right, talks to outgoing Chancellor Olaf Scholz in the ... The motion was narrowly approved thanks to votes ...

Alice Weidel may get the last laugh yet. The co-leader of Germany’s most popular party, the Alternative for Germany (AfD), was visibly amused on Tuesday morning when Friedrich Merz, the head of the ...

Supporters of Mr. Merz, a former corporate lawyer, say he is well-prepared and thoughtful, but critics accuse him of failing ...

Germany's domestic intelligence agency has officially designated the country's main opposition party a right-wing extremist ...

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

US President Donald Trump’s secretary of state Marco Rubio accused the German state of “tyranny in disguise”, further ...

Germany's conservative leader Friedrich Merz narrowly lost a vote in the Bundestag to become the next chancellor in an unexpected setback that plunges the country into political uncertainty. Shane ...

Because the vote is held by secret ballot, it is not immediately clear — and might never be known — who defected from Merz's ...

Friedrich Merz of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU ... Meanwhile, the euroskeptic right-wing Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) populist force has consolidated its might within local politics ...