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By Andreas Rinke and Matthias Williams BERLIN (Reuters) -Election winner Friedrich Merz on Tuesday ruled out a quick reform ...

Germany's likely next Chancellor Friedrich Merz questioned on Sunday whether NATO would remain in its "current form" by June ...

Election winner likens the Trump administration to Putin’s Russia as he bids to take Europe in a new direction.

Triumphant CDU leader hits out at Washington and calls for stronger European security amid attempts to build government.

Germany's incoming chancellor, Friedrich Merz, has said an "absolute priority" for him will be to distance Europe from the ...

However, owing to a constitutional amendment brought in by a previous coalition government, public spending in Germany is ...

The front-runner to be Germany's next chancellor, Friedrich Merz, said that Europe cannot rely on US President Donald Trump ...

Friedrich Merz, the leader of Germany's mainstream conservatives, has said that Europe must become independent from the ...

Germany's mainstream conservatives have won the country's national election, while a far-right party surged to become the ...

Friedrich Merz's CDU party emerged as the largest party in Germany's parliament, the Bundestag, earning 28.6% of the vote.

The far-right had its strongest showing since World War II, while the center-left Social Democrats had their worst postwar ...