Germany wants to retain the EU's Schengen area which allows free movement but that can only work if it is not abused by ...

A 21-year-old German man was arrested after the fatal attack in the Bavarian town of Mellrichstadt, according to local police ...

Mit einem schuldenfinanzierten Investitionsprogramm in Höhe von mehreren hundert Milliarden Euro will Bundeskanzler Friedrich ...

When I was a young foreign service officer we briefed the president on foreign leaders with whom he would meet. I doubt such ...

Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s €46 billion ($53 billion) package of tax breaks was approved by Germany’s lower house of ...

( JTA) — German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has expressed gratitude about Israel’s attacks on Iran’s nuclear program.

The argument that Israeli security is Germany’s “reason of state” was reiterated by Merkel’s successor, Olaf Scholz, during ...

Merz had announced the plans to reject refuge to migrants during his campaign after an Afghan asylum seeker fatally stabbed a two-year-old and an adult at the Bavarian town of Aschaffenburg. Amid ...

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 ...

Conservative leader Friedrich Merz has been elected as Germany’s chancellor — hours after he failed to win the first round in parliament in a historic defeat. Mr Merz, 69, who succeeds Olaf Scholz, ...

Friedrich Merz is congratulated by outgoing chancellor Olaf Scholz (Ebrahim Noroozi/AP) On Tuesday, Mr Merz needed a majority of 316 out of 630 votes in parliament but only got 310 in the first round.