Germany has tightened its border controls, and interior minister Alexander Dobrindt announced increased measures against ...

For all these reasons, we are rooting for the success of Germany’s new chancellor, Friedrich Merz. He is a 69-year-old lawyer ...

Post-WWII Germany has long been wary of state power and unfettered spending − and that may stymie new chancellor’s plans.

GERMANY’S new government will now turn away undocumented immigrants, scrapping former Chancellor Angela Merkel’s “open door” ...

Friedrich Merz, 69, a conservative stalwart and longtime rival of Angela Merkel, was elected Germany’s 10th postwar ...

GERMANY'S new government will now turn away undocumented immigrants, scrapping former Chancellor Angela Merkel's "open door" policy. It is one of the first acts under new Chancellor Friedrich Merz ...

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

Merz’s two-party Union bloc emerged as the strongest force from Germany’s election on Feb. 23 ... a trained lawyer who saw ...

Friedrich Merz, a conservative Christian Democrat, became Germany’s next chancellor after a surprising setback in parliament ...

Germany has launched a new initiative to tighten border controls and temper the flow of undocumented migrants into the ...

Newly elected German chancellor Friedrich Merz has scrapped Angela Merkel's open border policy ... of thousands of asylum seekers to enter Germany, many of whom were fleeing civil war in Syria.