Friedrich Merz

Friedrich Merz

Germany's Chancellor Friedrich Merz speaks with US President Donald Trump before the start of the North Atlantic Council plenary meeting at the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) summit in The Hague on 25 June 2025. LUDOVIC MARIN/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo

Trump hosts Germany's Merz for talks eclipsed by Mideast war

The long-scheduled White House meeting was supposed to focus on the war in Ukraine and rocky EU-US trade relations, part of a wider effort to salvage frayed transatlantic ties.

German and Chinese national flags flutter in front of a hotel where a press conference by German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock is held, in Beijing, China, 2 December, 2024.Photo: Reuters

Germany wants deeper, fairer economic cooperation with China, Merz tells Chinese Premier Li

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz speaks at the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party's rally, during the party's traditional Ash Wednesday meeting, in Trier, Germany, 18 February 2026. REUTERS/Jana Rodenbusch

Germany's Merz joins calls for social media limits for children

France's President Emmanuel Macron, Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Germany's Chancellor Friedrich Merz speak during a Ukraine security meeting at the 6th European Political Community summit on May 16, 2025 at Skanderbeg Square in Tirana, Albania. Photo: Leon Neal/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo

Europe calls for US reset at security talks

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, French President Emmanuel Macron, and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz leave after a meeting at 10 Downing Street, in London, Britain, December 8, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Toby Melville/Pool

Ukraine to share revised peace plan with US on Tuesday: Zelenskiy

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz attends a press confernce, as he meets with eastern German state premiers, at Ettersburg Castle, in Ettersburg, Germany, September 25, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Karina Hessland

Europe 'no longer at peace' with Russia: Germany's Merz

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz speaks to visitors at the chancellery during the government's "Open House Day" in Berlin, Germany, August 24, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Liesa Johannssen

Germany should look for new trade partners: Chancellor Merz

German opposition leader Friedrich Merz of the Christian Democratic Union party (CDU) gives a statement on the day of a CDU faction meeting at the Bundestag, Germany's lower house of parliament, in Berlin, Germany, November 12, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Lisi Niesner/File Photo

Germany's Merz says Putin, Zelenskiy to meet within next two weeks

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio. File Photo: Oliver Contreras/Sipa/Bloomberg

Rubio speaks with UK's Lammy, Germany's Merz on India-Pakistan tensions, Russia

France's President Emmanuel Macron, Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz hold a trilateral meeting on board a train to Ukraine, in an undisclosed loaction in Ukraine, May 9, 2025. Photo: LUDOVIC MARIN/Pool via REUTERS

European leaders head to Kyiv to show support after Putin's parade

French President Emmanuel Macron shakes hands with newly elected German Chancellor Friedrich Merz as he arrives for a meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris, France, 7 May 2025. Photo: Reuters

Merz, Macron announce plans for Franco-German defence and security council

Incoming Chancellor Friedrich Merz looks on, on the day of the second round of voting to elect the new German chancellor, after he failed to be elected as chancellor in the first voting round, in the German lower house of parliament Bundestag in Berlin, Germany May 6, 2025. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch

Merz elected German chancellor after initial shock defeat

Designated German Chancellor Friedrich Merz of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) reacts on the day of a session of the German lower house of parliament Bundestag, to elect the new German chancellor, in Berlin, Germany 6 May 2025. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch

Merz fails to be elected chancellor by German parliament