It has been a roller-coaster of a day. Dramatic scenes from the Bundestag after Christian Democratic (CDU) leader Friedrich Merz failed to win enough votes to be elected chancellor. This was the first ...

Friedrich Merz (left) and his predecessor Olaf Scholz at a handover ceremony at the Chancellery in Berlin on Tuesday - FILIP SINGER/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock Friedrich ...

A political artists' collective has placed a statue of murdered politician Walter Lübcke outside CDU headquarters. Lübcke was killed by a supporter of the far-right AfD, which the activists are ...

Nearly half of Germans doubt the country's coalition will survive its full term, a new YouGov poll shows. Meanwhile, German ...

Friedrich Merz has made it to the chancellery after a bumpy start. He needed an unprecedented second vote to secure the necessary majority in the Bundestag in what was a historic debacle in German ...

EADaily, December 21st, 2025. The appearance of German Chancellor Friedrich Merz at the scene of the terrorist attack in Magdeburg caused a scandal. This is reported by the publication Compact.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz drew historical parallels between russian dictator vladimir putin's military aggression in ...

BERLIN (AP) — Conservative leader Friedrich Merz was elected in a second ballot by lawmakers as post-World War II Germany's 10th chancellor on Tuesday — hours after he failed to win the first round in ...

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s unwieldy ruling alliance with the Social Democrats is facing an existential crisis of its own making that could trigger its demise after only seven months in office.

Trust in conservative leader Merz fell to 32% in December—down 6 percentage points from 38% when the government formed in May 2025—according to a Forsa poll - Anadolu Ajansı ...

German Federal Chancellor Friedrich Merz has said that Russian President Vladimir Putin is interested in restoring the Soviet ...