Friedrich Merz wants to ban Germans from calling in sick to work in a bid to tackle soaring rates of absenteeism.

German police are probing several people over potentially insulting comments posted on Facebook amid a visit by Chancellor Friedrich Merz to the south-western city of Heilbronn last year, a police ...

As far as appearances go, the speech was pretty good, delivered in the near-impeccable English of a man who spent many years ...

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, during his opening speech at the 2026 Munich Security Conference, stated: "I'm afraid we ...

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz will pay an official visit to China from Wednesday to Thursday at the invitation of ...

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz is scheduled to visit China from February 24 to 27, 2026. This marks his first official trip ...

During his campaign, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz signaled a radical change from previous leaders’ cheerleading for trade ...

STUTTGART, Germany, Feb 21 (Reuters) - Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Saturday ruled out a further loosening of German ...

Germany aims to find “the right balance of cooperation” with China. The visit comes at a critical time for German car makers ...

German chancellor rebuts idea of American unilateralism and says ‘democracies have partners and allies’ ...

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz warned the United States against igniting a tariff war and spoke hopefully of a partnership ...