Friedrich Merz

Prime Minister Andy Burnham will hold talks on tackling cyber-security threats and sabotage with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Thursday

Merz’s conservatives in new crisis over alleged support for AfD

Israelis commemorate October 7 attack as election looms

The prime minister’s trip comes amid an intelligence scandal that has rocked Germany

Fix, a historian and senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, has built her argument into a timely and incisive book, Germany Rearmed: The Return of War and the End of Illusions

August Hanning: Ex-German spy chief arrested for espionage and treason

Germany and France agree on last-resort tool against trade threats

Germany to provide satellite technology ‘so that Ukraine can also target Russian launch pads’

At a rare public hearing Germany's intelligence agencies identified Russia as the country's most dangerous adversary

German Chancellor Friedriz Merz's visit to Ukraine was met with Russian missiles as he pledged €1.3 billion to Kyiv

Thomas Giuffra told CNN that people had threatened to silence or harm her if she did not withdraw her civil lawsuit ⁠alleging that several members of a Cornell fraternity had drugged and raped her in 2024

Air raid sirens blared across Kyiv, urging residents to shelter soon after Friedrich Merz arrived under tight security, with warnings of approaching Russian attack drones

Nearly half of Germans view former Chancellor Angela Merkel as better suited to handle Germany's challenges than current Chancellor Friedrich Merz

The German chancellor’s foes at home are rejoicing at his political downturn

Seoul and Kyiv are embroiled in a diplomatic dispute, with Seoul strongly protesting against Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s disclosure of the transfer during his U.N. speech last week

In other news, the German military will set up its first drone regiment

German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul held a meeting with Lavrov at the U.N. on Saturday in what marked the first meeting between ministers from the two countries since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022

Kazakh President Qasym-Jomart Toqayev has again called on Russian ruler Vladimir Putin to "freeze" the war in Ukraine and move towards "diplomacy and negotiations"

Germany and the cost-cutting faction it leads demanded on Tuesday a reduction of several hundred billion euros to the European Commission’s original near-€2 trillion proposal

Following the meeting, Lavrov characterized Wadephul’s positions during the talks as “nothing new.”

Chancellor Friedrich Merz and his counterparts from five countries have threatened to withhold approval to the EU budget proposal unless it's cut by billions of euros

Following the meeting, Lavrov characterized Wadephul’s positions during the talks as “nothing new.”

Russia-Germany tensions are back in focus as Putin envoy Kirill Dmitriev backed calls for the damaged Nord Stream pipelines to be repaired and reopened

School strikes are taking place across Germany to protest against the possible reintroduction of compulsory military service

But while these elections were important, this reductive take both oversimplifies the complexities of contemporary European politics and drives a defeatist “end of democracy” narrative

It's still unclear who will govern the state because the AfD does not have an absolute majority

Xi Jinping, Vladimir Putin, Friedrich Merz, Giorgia Meloni and Mahmoud Abbas are among more than 50 leaders who won't make it to the UN General Assembly

Nearly 200 world leaders get a lectern and two microphones to make their point at the United Nations General Assembly

At a press conference this week, the German chancellor had barely begun addressing yet another disastrous set of election results when he stopped to rebuke a man moving in front of the cameras

Leaders from Merz’s Christian Democratic Union publicly closed ranks around the chancellor and his reform drive on Monday, despite growing internal concern that his leadership is rapidly driving their party toward demise

Leaders from Merz’s Christian Democratic Union publicly closed ranks around the chancellor and his reform drive on Monday, despite growing internal concern that his leadership is rapidly driving their party toward demise

Friedrich Merz is facing renewed pressure after his CDU crashed to 4.9% in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, missing the threshold for state parliament in its worst regional result since 1949

Merz's Christian Democratic Union (CDU) collapsed to 5.5 percent in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and fell to second place with 20 percent in Berlin

Provisional results gave Die Linke 25.7 percent in Berlin, more than doubling its share from 2023

German voters have delivered a fresh setback to Chancellor Friedrich Merz in two key regional elections

Germany’s Merz hits out at ‘destructive’ forces as he fights for survival

Germans began voting Sunday, September 20, in two state elections where far-right and radical left gains could send new shock waves to Berlin and rock the government of embattled Chancellor Friedrich Merz

Berlin races to ease pump pain amid global supply shocks and oil route attacks

Chancellor Friedrich Merz is facing record low approval ratings which embolden his opponents

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz faces the threat of being ousted as soon as this weekend, just 16 months after entering office promising an ambitious reform agenda and vowing to bring back German leadership in Europe

Speaking at the European Arctic Summit in Rovaniemi, Finland, Merz pointed to the attempted drone attack at Leipzig/Halle Airport on August 4, which the German government has blamed on Russia

After polls closed in a German state election this month, dozens of local pro-migrant activists gathered anxiously for dinner to see how big a win the anti-immigrant far right would secure

Chancellor Friedrich Merz will not fly to New York next Tuesday to attend the United Nations General Assembly as planned

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz urges Iran to end the Hormuz blockade, halt its nuclear program and prevent the conflict from spreading into Iraq

Fuel shortages and long lines at the pump are slowing economies along with strikes by taxi drivers and laborers who see no point in working when earnings barely cover energy costs

If it finds a way to power it will be the first far-right party to govern a German state since the Nazi era