Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said on Friday she is confident of good relations with Friedrich Merz, the conservative ...

Germany ’s center-left Social Democrats have approved a deal to join a new coalition government, paving the way for ...

Germany’s Social Democrats voted in favor of the coalition deal with Friedrich Merz’s conservatives, clearing the way for the ...

Incoming German interior minister Alexander Dobrindt suggested on Sunday it was unlikely the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party would be banned after the spy agency classified it as ...

Mr Merz’s prosperous upbringing in the Sauerland, a well-to-do, rural Catholic region in Germany’s west, and his early career ...

Lars Klingbeil, the co-leader of Germany's Social Democratic Party (SPD), is set to become the country's next vice chancellor ...

The SPD’s participation in government under Merz marks a new stage in the decline of the party, whose history began more than ...

German election winner Friedrich Merz’s party has approved an agreement to form a coalition government with a center-left ...

2:43 German Conservatives to win election ... to elect conservative leader Friedrich Merz as the country’s new chancellor. The party of outgoing Chancellor Olaf Scholtz will join a coalition ...

German Chancellor-designate Friedrich Merz nominated several future ministers on Monday. His conservative CDU, along with its Bavarian sister-party CSU, won Germany's snap election in February 2025.