"The burden of power": The party of the future German Chancellor is already losing support
The successful completion of the probing negotiations for the winner of the Bundestag elections, the Christian Democratic ...
Friedrich Merz, a Conservative, Is Poised to Be Germany’s Next Chancellor
The Christian Democrat, who appeared to have a path to a stable governing coalition, hopes to lead Europe’s response to ...
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Germany's Merz vows to slow migration
Germany's chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz has promised to "massively expand border controls" once the country's next ...
Germany’s likely next government seeks higher defense spending as doubts rise about US commitment
The prospective partners in Germany’s next government say they will seek to loosen the nation’s rules on running up debt to ...
Germany’s far-right may be frozen out of power, but the AfD is now a powerful force
Germany’s political system is set up to exclude extremists. Yet the country is waking up to a new political reality that has ...
Trump’s Embrace of Putin Has Germany Thinking of Nuclear Weapons
Europeans are reconsidering their security and giving currency to an idea the U.S. has long sought to avoid: a nuclear-armed ...
Germany’s Likely Next Chancellor Pushes For Tighter Border Controls
Germany's economy is in desperate need of foreign labor, but a political environment hostile to all kinds of immigrants makes ...
Can Germany spend its way out of industrial decline?
Chancellor-to-be Friedrich Merz wants to expand investment in defence and infrastructure. The race to re-arm could be a ...
Germany's Merz and SPD clear first hurdle to forming coalition
BERLIN (Reuters) -German election winner Friedrich Merz's conservatives and the Social Democrats (SPD) have concluded ...
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Europe Should 'Achieve Independence' From US, Says Germany's Merz
Merz, the likely next chancellor of Germany, has warned that Europe can no longer count on the U.S., which he said had become "largely indifferent" to the continent's fate. His comments follow the ...
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Germany’s chancellor-in-waiting prioritizes ‘real’ independence from the US − but what does that mean and is it achievable?
(THE CONVERSATION) Germany’s presumptive new chancellor, Friedrich Merz, faces challenges both at home and overseas following his conservative alliance’s election victory on Feb. 23 ...
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Who Is Friedrich Merz? Germany's Likely Next Chancellor
Peter Aitken is a Newsweek Politics Editor based in New York. His focus is domestic U.S. politics, but he has experience covering Foreign Affairs, Business and Technology. Peter joined Newsweek in ...