Forget the back-slapping pol ready to banter about the Bundesliga; Friedrich Merz is a former corporate lawyer who wrote a ...

Having led his party, the Christian Democrats, to first place in Germany’s election last month, Mr. Merz swiftly assumed the ...

FILE - Floor leader Friedrich Merz, left, and Angela Merkel, chairwoman of the Christian Democrats Union party (CDU), cheer after Merz's speech to the delegates of the CDU party convention in ...

Already, Merz has pledged to increase defense spending and put Paris, Warsaw, and London at the lead of a new policy to shore ...

Friedrich Merz is on course to become ... The top job has been late in coming for Merz, a lawyer by profession, who saw his ascent derailed by former Chancellor Angela Merkel in the early 2000s and ...

Negotiators from German election winner Friedrich Merz’s conservative bloc and the center-left Social Democrats have started exploratory talks on a possible coalition government ...

Friedrich Merz is on track to become the next chancellor of Germany after an early exit poll put his centre-right CDU/CSU bloc in the lead. Reacting to the early results, Mr Merz said he would ...

Friedrich Merz is set ... The top job has been late in coming for Merz, a lawyer by profession, who saw his ascent derailed by former Chancellor Angela Merkel in the early 2000s and even turned ...

Friedrich Merz ... The top job has been late in coming for Merz, a lawyer by profession, who saw his ascent derailed by former Chancellor Angela Merkel in the early 2000s and even turned his ...

Friedrich Merz-led CDU/CSU bloc won Germany elections with 28.5% of votes, surpassing Olaf Scholz's SPD. Germany’s conservative leader Friedrich Merz is set to lead the nation after his party ...

Friedrich Merz ... The top job has been late in coming for Mr Merz, a lawyer by profession, who saw his ascent derailed by former chancellor Angela Merkel in the early 2000s and even turned ...