German Chancellor Friedrich Merz called on President Xi Jinping to support a joint US-European push to achieve a ceasefire in Ukraine, in his first phone call with the Chinese leader on Friday.

Germany and its NATO partners are ready to defend every inch of the Alliance’s territory, Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on ...

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has traveled to NATO partner Lithuania to inaugurate a German brigade meant to protect the ...

Germany's new chancellor Friedrich Merz signalled a new start in relations with European partners France and Poland, but ...

BERLIN — Friedrich Merz made his world-affairs debut Wednesday as Germany’s new chancellor, with plans to immediately team up with allies France and Poland to present a united European front on ...

In Berlin, Friedrich Merz was elected Germany’s chancellor, but not without a surprising setback. For the first time in ...

Olaf Scholz, the now former chancellor of Germany ... today’s second vote confirmed his election as chancellor. As Friedrich Merz took the oath of office as Germany’s chancellor on Tuesday ...

Conservative leader Friedrich Merz has been elected as Germany’s ... Mr Merz, 69, who succeeds Olaf Scholz, has vowed to prioritise European unity and the continent’s security as it grapples ...

(AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi) Friedrich Merz, right, talks to outgoing Chancellor Olaf Scholz at the German federal parliament, Bundestag, at the Reichstag building in Berlin, Tuesday, May 6 ...

BERLIN — Friedrich Merz was elected chancellor by the German ... deadlock in the country after the collapse of Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s government in November. But Merz’s initial defeat ...