German legislators are set to vote on the country’s next chancellor again, hours after conservative leader Friedrich Merz failed to win the first round in parliament in a historic defeat. Mr Merz, the ...

On the 80th anniversary of World War II, Germany is poised to elect a new Chancellor following the collapse of Olaf Scholz’s ...

No German chancellor had ever failed to win a first round ballot for leader - but Friedrich Merz has become the first.