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German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said Friday, a day after meeting with President Donald Trump at the White House, that he encountered a U.S. administration open to discussion.

Donald Trump and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz bonded during an amicable White House meeting on Thursday.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz gifted President Trump a gilded framed copy of his grandfather's birth certificate during their first face-to-face meeting at the White House Thursday.

President Trump and newly minted German Chancellor Friedrich Merz will meet Thursday at the White House with the conversation likely to center on foreign and trade policy. The visit between Trump a… ...

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz is in Washington D.C. Thursday to meet with President Donald Trump in person for the first time.

Merz's office said the new German leader, who took the helm of Europe's biggest economy on May 6, will meet Trump on Thursday — the first in-person meeting between the two.

The Left Party’s support was decisive in enabling Merz to take office—a politician who openly works with the far-right AfD on key issues and supports the interests of finance capital ...

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Friedrich Merz made his world-affairs debut on Wednesday (May 5, 2025) as Germany ’s new Chancellor, with plans to immediately team up with allies France and Poland to present a united European ...

Euronews takes a look through the top 10 photos of the day, during which CDU leader Friedrich Merz both lost and then won enough votes to be elected as German chancellor.