Shortly after taking office following their swearing-in on May 6, 2025, the new federal government heads straight into the first parliamentary summer break. This traditionally takes place in July and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz stands at a press conference during his inaugural visit to North Rhine-Westphalia as Federal ...

Germany risks complicity in international law violations after parliamentary legal assessment that US-Israeli strikes on Iran ...

Trump said D-Day was "not a great day" for Germany. Merz replied the Normandy invasion marked "the liberation of my country from a Nazi dictator.” WASHINGTON −Another day, another startled leader in ...

Friedrich Merz, knee-to-knee in the Oval Office with Donald Trump, sat mute as the US president threw verbal darts at Spain, one of Germany’s European Union allies, complaining about its failure to ...

Merz has a hardline stance on migration. He has called for asylum-seekers arriving from other European Union member states to be rejected at Germany’s land borders. Merz has criticized liberal welfare ...