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

Negotiators from German election winner Friedrich Merz's conservative bloc and the center-left Social Democrats have started ...

Friedrich Merz, the leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and soon to be chancellor of Germany, announced ...

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CDU celebrations are muted because a 28.52pc vote share means a weaker negotiating position in coalition with the centre-Left ...

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However, reunification in 1990 allowed Angela Merkel, the East German daughter of a protestant pastor, to enter politics and ...

And overwhelmingly it has been brought about by allowing millions of Muslims into the West who have no desire to fit in, but ...

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The Christian Democrat, whose party won the parliamentary elections, quickly began negotiating with the Social Democrats to ...

The CDU/CSU was led to victory on Sunday by the towering Friedrich Merz, who has never served in the German government until ...