Friedrich Merz is caving in to the hard-Right on social issues, Germany’s first transgender MP has claimed, after the German ...

View Friedrich Merz’s Fast Facts on CNN and learn about the chancellor of Germany.

January 2022 - After two failed bids for CDU party leadership, in 2018 and 2021, Merz is selected to lead the party. February 23, 2025 – CDU and its sister party wins the federal election.

May 31 (UPI) --President Trump plans to meet with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz next week in Washington, D.C. Merz, who was elected May 6 in a parliamentary election, is scheduled to visit with ...

Merz's office said the new German leader, who took the helm of Europe's biggest economy on May 6, will meet Trump on Thursday — the first in-person meeting between the two.

While President Donald Trump has promised to stifle clean energy and bring a fossil fuel renaissance to the United States, Germany isn’t going that route. On Tuesday, Friedrich Merz of the Christian ...

While President Trump has promised to stifle clean energy and bring a fossil-fuel renaissance to the United States, Germany isn’t going that route. On Tuesday, Friedrich Merz of the Christian ...

Friedrich Merz was elected as Germany ’s new chancellor on Tuesday after winning the second round of voting, just hours after his unprecedented failure to secure a majority in the first ballot ...

Euronews takes a look through the top 10 photos of the day, during which CDU leader Friedrich Merz both lost and then won enough votes to be elected as German chancellor. It has been a roller ...

Friedrich Merz has been elected Germany’s next chancellor after securing 325 votes in a second-round Bundestag vote, following an unexpected defeat in the first round. His win ends weeks of ...

Europe News: Friedrich Merz, 69, a conservative stalwart and longtime rival of Angela Merkel, was elected Germany’s 10th postwar chancellor on Tuesday after a dram.