BERLIN - Germany's new Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Wednesday urged the West not to be divided on Ukraine and vowed to ...

Germany is facing a new security reality. Addressing it will require the country’s leaders to change how they discuss ...

Germany's newly-minted Chancellor Friedrich Merz says he will advocate for trans-Atlantic unity in the negotiations with ...

Beyond the immediate neighbourhood, positioning Germany towards the US, China and Israel are high on the agenda. In line with ...

Mr. Merz needed two rounds of voting to become chancellor after a surprising defeat in Parliament hours earlier that ...

Merz won in a second round of voting after failing to secure an absolute majority in an earlier round.

Whether Germany under Friedrich Merz will become the new leader of the Western world, how the new chancellor is breaking the ...

The centre-left party of outgoing Chancellor Olaf Scholz will join a coalition led by Merz’s centre-right ... pro-Ukraine defence policy veteran Johann Wadephul as foreign minister and Alexander ...

Since entering office, Trump has said he maintains an America First policy. On Ukraine, Trump has criticised the scale of US spending under former President Joe Biden, arguing that European ...

His appointment under Chancellor-designate Friedrich Merz of the center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) marks a significant pivot to a more security-driven and transatlantic foreign policy — ...

Wadephul, 62, has long been a key foreign policy adviser to Merz and is expected to coordinate ... Russia with Western-supplied weapons -- a stance that has stirred debate within his party and ...