Friedrich Merz, Germany’s new chancellor, is the worst possible man for the job. Throughout his career, he has held a dogged commitment to a neoliberal ideology that has destroyed Europe’s ...

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz is set to make his first visit to China towards the end of this year with a delegation of ...

Center-right politician Friedrich Merz was elected chancellor after an unprecedented two rounds of voting in the German parliament.

President Trump had just welcomed the German chancellor to the White House when he began lashing out at Elon Musk. The ensuing storm eclipsed Friedrich Merz’s inaugural visit. While he lambasted ...

In 2008, then-chancellor Angela Merkel went so far as to call this commitment to Israel’s security Germany’s “ Staatsräson,” or “reason of state.” In a speech she gave to the Israeli ...

Top officials mark 70 years since Germany joined NATO, Berlin's most famous kebap kiosk moves locations, inflation was down ...

For Germany and Europe, the stakes in the run-up to the vote to ratify Merz as chancellor could not have been higher – a cascade of crises confronts both.

Elisabeth Weber, University of California, Santa Barbara (THE CONVERSATION) Friedrich Merz did something unprecedented for a German chancellor in late May 2025: publicly criticize Israel in ...

This “semi-sovereign state,” in political scientist Peter Katzenstein’s famous formulation, helped reclaim German moral credibility from the ashes of fascism and genocide.

Center-right politician Friedrich Merz was elected chancellor after an unprecedented two rounds of voting in the German parliament.