German ministers are set to hold joint consultations with the Ukrainian government this year, Chancellor Friedrich Merz said in Berlin after a meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Merz said Germany and Ukraine have grown closer since the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine began in 2022.

The first formal meeting of coalition partners ends in success as the parties agree on a wide range of measures for the government.

Germany and Ukraine strike a deal to jointly develop weapons with "no range restrictions," as the Kremlin says Trump's jabs at Putin are due to him "not being informed." Germany's Friedrich Merz won enough votes on Tuesday to become the country's new chancellor after a second round of parliamentary voting after falling short.

Germany plans to introduce legislation to abolish a fast-track option that allows well-integrated migrants to naturalize after three years in the country. The move is part of a wider effort by new conservative leader Friedrich Merz to make Europe’s largest economy less attractive to foreigners.

Under Chancellor Friedrich Merz, Germany relationship with China is entering a phase of cautious recalibration in 2025.

Chancellor Friedrich Merz is about to make history with his vow to create the 'strongest conventional army in Europe,' writes Ian Bremmer.

Germany’s new chancellor, Friedrich Merz, increasingly pitches himself as a pragmatist akin to Angela Merkel. But his mantra of stable leadership has its limits, with the far right on the rise and Germany beset by dismal economic prospects.

The new German chancellor intends to thwart Trump’s attempt to reduce Europe into a sideshow CAN FRIEDRICH MERZ, the new German chancellor, spark a ‘Sputnik’ moment in Europe? In 1957, the Soviet Union launched the world’s first earth-orbiting satellite,