The frontrunner to become chancellor has bold plans for economic reform, but a flirtation with the far-right has hurt his ...

The sweat was dripping off Friedrich Merz after the frontrunner to become Germany’s next chancellor saw his bid to outflank an ascendant far right spectacularly backfire in the Bundestag.

Friedrich Merz and his Christian Democrats broke a political taboo by working with the hard-right Alternative for Germany to toughen rules on immigration. It did not pay off. By Christopher F.

Germany's conservative opposition leader Friedrich Merz faced sharp criticism on Tuesday for flirting with the far-right AfD party ahead of the Feb. 23 parliamentary elections. Chancellor Olaf ...

Angry protesters in Hamburg, Munich, Cologne and Leipzig said that Friedrich Merz and his Christian Democrats broke Germany’s unwritten post-Nazi promise by all democratic parties to never pass ...

Friedrich Merz, the frontrunner to become Germany’s next chancellor, is wagering that despite his country’s Nazi past, its voters aren’t all that different from other Europeans. As mainstream parties ...

Friedrich Merz, the centre-Right leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party, suffered a major political defeat on Friday when his migration bill backed by Alternative for Germany (AfD ...