The opposition leader is expected to be Germany’s next chancellor. No one knows if he has what it takes to steer his country ...

Friedrich Merz, a leading German political figure, has raised serious concerns about what he calls a “new and unsettling ...

In countries across Europe, nativist far-right political parties have dramatically expanded their vote share in recent years, ...

Friedrich Merz, the Christian Democratic Union candidate for chancellor, speaks at a campaign event in Stromberg, Germany, on Friday. (Thomas Frey/DPA/AP) BERLIN — Angst (a German word ...

Mr Merz insists that Germany has no choice but to change. “The business model of this country is gone,” he states bluntly. His response begins with a war on red tape in Brussels and Berlin.

Chancellor Olaf Scholz has accused his main rival in Germany’s upcoming election of “constant about turns,” while Friedrich ...

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 ...

Viewers surveyed on Sunday thought that German Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) narrowly won the TV debate against his rival Friedrich Merz from the conservative CDU. In a survey conducted by the ...

Speaking to CNN in Berlin following his Christian Democratic Party’s (CDU) convention, Friedrich Merz said he would “control [Germany’s] borders and return those who are coming without ...