The German parliament plans to meet on May 6 to elect Friedrich Merz as the country’s next leader, if all the parties in his ...

German election winner Friedrich Merz has sealed a deal to form a new government that aims to spur economic growth, ramp up ...

Germany’s incoming Chancellor Friedrich Merz announced Wednesday his center-right Christian Democratic Union made a deal to form a governing coalition with the center-left Social Democrats.

Don’t be fooled: Germany’s Christian Democratic Uni­on is not the same party it was under the former chancellor, Angela Merkel. In early February, just a few weeks before the German federal elections, ...

Nerves are on edge in Germany’s centre-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) as controversial coalition discussions have seen their opinion poll lead over the far-right melt away to just one ...

Markus Soeder, chairman of Bavarian's Christian Social Union party, Friedrich Merz, Christian Democratic Union party chairman and the Social Democratic Party co-leaders Lars Klingbeil and Saskia ...

April 9 (UPI) --Details on a political deal to form a new German coalition government will be presented Wednesday by the conservative Christian Democratic Union and the center-left Social ...

The daughter of a California man, Jamshid "Jimmy" Sharmahd, who was executed and mutilated by Iran, wants the U.S. to break off nuclear talks with the clerical regime.

Pressure was on between the center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and the center-left Social Democratic Party (SPD) to reach an agreement as Europe’s largest economy teeters on the brink ...

Merz’s critics say he is failing to make good on pre-election vows to move his Christian Democratic Union (CDU) sharply to the right in key policy areas. The dissent within the ranks has spilled out ...

After what by German standards was a relatively swift negotiation, the centre-right Christian Democratic bloc, led by Friedrich Merz, sewed up its coalition talks with the Social Democrats (spd ...

the coalition deal needs approval in a ballot of the Social Democrats’ membership and by a convention on April 28 of Merz’s Christian Democratic Union party. Once those hurdles are cleared ...