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

Friedrich Merz was poised to be sworn in as chancellor but did not win enough votes in parliament, usually a symbolic step.

As World War II fades from living memory, its place in the German collective consciousness is as complicated as ever.

Central Berlin was in ruins after the Red Army completed the Allied victory over Nazi Germany in an intense fight for the ...

In Germany, Friedrich Merz was elected as chancellor ... The move undoes a 2015 order by then-Chancellor Angela Merkel, whose leadership was defined in large part by her welcoming of hundreds ...

As Western alliances unravel, Europe is entering an era that seems distant from what VE Day represented, the BBC's Katya ...

"I think that in a week or so from now, nobody will talk much about it ... and keeping the ruling coalition united and in line. Germany's economy will be top of mind for Merz, having made promises ...