Triumphant CDU leader hits out at Washington and calls for stronger European security amid attempts to build government.
I wonder whether in June we will still be talking about NATO in its current form, or whether we will have to create an ...
Germany’s likely next chancellor wants to reboot ties with France, do a free-trade deal with Donald Trump and get tougher on ...
Four candidates are bidding to be Germany’s next leader in Sunday’s election. The would-be chancellors are the incumbent, the ...
Nahal Toosi is POLITICO’s senior foreign affairs correspondent. She has reported on war, genocide and political chaos in a career that has taken her around the world. Germans delivered a major ...
Friedrich Merz, a man who has never held a government role, is preparing to take the reins in Germany just as the country faces its biggest economic and diplomatic crises in decades and Europe ...
Most have AI-generated profiles and background pictures, illustrating their posts with AI pictures of Merz. Some posts portray Germany as being stuck in a spiral of economic decline that can only ...
Friedrich Merz looks poised to form a coalition between his center-right alliance and the center-left Social Democrats, but ...