He has vowed to prioritize European unity and the continent’s security as it grapples with the new Trump administration and Russia’s war on Ukraine.

Friedrich Merz, who is poised to become Germany's chancellor in a CDU-led government, has extensive experience as a lawyer and working with major corporations.

Coalition negotiations between the Christian Democrats and Social Democrats to form a new federal government began Thursday.

Officials in Paris and Berlin are excited about the good relationship incoming German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has with ...

BERLIN (Reuters) -Friedrich Merz, a man who has never held a government role ... figure from the time before he left politics for a lucrative second career at Blackrock that made the hobby pilot ...

The likely next chancellor has staked his government on a move to increase military spending. But the window for change is ...

BlackRock Inc. has turned negative on euro-area bonds, pointing to the region’s pivot toward higher defense spending and the ...

Friedrich Merz may have staved off the ascension of the far-right Alternative for Germany party for now, but the newly elected chancellor faces a critical test that will have seismic consequences for ...

But, although he will not become chancellor for some weeks, Friedrich Merz, who won Germany’s election on February 23rd, has ...

Russia's westward push and U.S. indifference towards European worries may trigger a strong economic revival in the region, ...

Forget the back-slapping pol ready to banter about the Bundesliga; Friedrich Merz is a former corporate lawyer who wrote a ...

Merz has previously worked as a judge and lawyer and has served as the chairman of BlackRock Germany's supervisory board. He is seen as a center-right, pro-business politician. Friedrich Merz ...