Germany’s Friedrich Merz has pledged to achieve “independence” from the United ... Sunday welcomed the election outcome as a “great day” for Germany and the US, and said it was proof ...

LONDON -- Before the final votes in Germany's election were even counted ... we can really achieve independence from the USA," Merz said Sunday. A poster of Friedrich Merz, the German conservative ...

And he has, by his own account, traveled more than 100 times to the U.S. Independence will not likely mean a complete divorce between the U.S. and Germany – the ties binding the two countries ...

Incoming Germany Chancellor Friedrich Merz is an unlikely candidate to lead a decisive break with the United States. But an erstwhile über-Atlanticist and fiscal conservative might be the only German ...

Germany’s chancellor-elect ... upon taking up the top job will be to secure Europe so that it can "achieve independence" from Washington. "I would never have thought that I would have to ...

To understand why that is such a concern for Germany now and what “real independence” from Washington means, The Conversation U.S. turned to Garret Martin, an expert on U.S.-Europe relations ...