First failed vote highlights Germany’s new head of government has a thin majority to deliver an ambitious programme ...

Merz received 325 votes in favor, surpassing the 316 required. According to The Guardian, 289 lawmakers voted against, one ...

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

The leader of Germany's Christian Democrat-Social Democratic coalition, Friedrich Merz, suffered a shock defeat Tuesday in ...

Friedrich Merz fails to secure chancellor majority in Bundestag, delaying Germany’s new government formation and triggering ...

For the first time since the founding of the Federal Republic, two rounds of voting were necessary to elect a chancellor.

Friedrich Merz succeeded in his bid to become the next German chancellor during a second vote in parliament, hours after he ...

Friedrich Merz has secured a majority in the second round of voting at the German Bundestag, averting a constitutional crisis ...

Three years ago Merz returned from the political wilderness to secure the leadership of the centre-right Christian Democratic ...

Vice Chairman of the German Bundestag Omid Nuripour has called on new German Chancellor Friedrich Merz to agree on the ...

Euronews takes a look through the top 10 photos of the day, during which CDU leader Friedrich Merz both lost and then won ...

German conservative leader Friedrich Merz failed to secure enough parliamentary votes to become chancellor in a major blow.