He became the leader of his Christian Democratic Union party after longtime Chancellor Angela Merkel — a former rival — stepped down in 2021. Mr. Merz has taken his party in a more ...

Chancellor Olaf Scholz of centre-left Social Democrats conceded defeat after what he called a “bitter election result". Projections for ARD and ZDF television showed his party finishing in third place ...

Renu Khator has been serving as chancellor of the University of Houston System and president of its flagship University of Houston campus, since January of 2008. She broke boundaries and glass ...

Friedrich Merz, who is set to become the new German chancellor, has vowed to "create unity" in Europe as it adjusts to the new Trump administration and Russia's war on Ukraine. Mr Merz's task will ...

Germany’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) narrowly wins national elections, setting the stage for Friedrich Merz to become the next chancellor. World leaders, including US President Trump ...

Germany’s opposition conservatives won the national election on Sunday, putting leader Friedrich Merz on track to be the next chancellor while the far-right Alternative for Germany came in second, its ...

However, reunification in 1990 allowed Angela Merkel, the East German daughter of a protestant pastor, to enter politics and elbow both Schaeuble and Merz aside on her rise to become chancellor.

The Christian Democratic Union (CDU) is poised to win the German election, with Friedrich Merz set to become the new chancellor. The ruling Social Democrats are seeing a decline, while the far ...

With his party topping Germany's snap election poll, Friedrich Merz looks set to fulfil his lifelong ambition of becoming Chancellor of Germany. It hasn't been an easy road for Merz to reach ...

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Friedrich Merz is likely to become the next German chancellor after his conservative CDU party topped the vote in elections, exit polls project. The stuttering economy and immigration were major ...

The ripple effect that Germany’s election could spell across Britain, the US and EU German chancellor Olaf Scholz conceded defeat for his centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) after what he called ...