Chancellor Friedrich Merz has backed the decision not to fly the rainbow flag on the Reichstag building - which houses the ...

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German Chancellor Friedrich Merz plans to attend the opening of the Richard Wagner Festival in the Bavarian city of Bayreuth ...

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.

Merz’s predecessor Angela Merkel in 2007 raised the legal retirement age from 65 to 67 in a highly controversial move. But for now, the majority of German workers retire early.

Friedrich Merz reacts after he failed to be elected new chancellor in the first voting process at the German federal parliament, Bundestag, at the Reichstag building in Berlin, Tuesday, May 6, 2025.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu informed German Chancellor Friedrich Merz about Israel's attack on Iran in a phone call on Friday morning, Merz said in a statement.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz reaffirmed he wants Commerzbank AG to remain independent and opposes a takeover by the Italian lender UniCredit SpA. The German government is committed to “a ...

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has voiced strong opposition to Italian bank UniCredit's bid to take control of German lender Commerzbank, calling the proposed move "unacceptable. " The German ...

King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima of the Netherlands hosted a grand gala dinner in The Hague on Tuesday evening. However ...

Merz defeat 'an obstacle not a catastrophe' The man expected to be Germany's next foreign minister reacts after Friedrich Merz fell short in a parliamentary vote to be named chancellor.