As domestic and international pressure builds, Merz also said Germany will participate in an airlift to deliver food and ...

Friedrich Merz has been elected as Germany's 10th post-World War II chancellor, the culmination of a long political career that was once sidelined by his party’s iconic leader, Angela Merkel.

FILE - Friedrich Merz, CDU candidate for chancellor and CDU federal chairman, attends the 37th federal party conference in Berlin, Germany, Feb. 3, 2025.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has welcomed the agreement reached in the customs dispute between the European Union and the ...

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 ...

Friedrich Merz, migration hard-liner and longtime rival of Angela Merkel, is expected to become Germany's next chancellor. His party the Christian Democratic Union is leading polls alongside its ...