The leader of the victorious CDU, Friedrich Merz, has a checkered history in German politics— from challenging Angela Merkel, ...
Germans are going to the polls on Sunday for national elections. Opinion polls suggest the outcome will be a new chancellor ...
German president Frank-Walter Steinmeier called the elections after chancellor Olaf Scholz lost a vote of confidence on 15 ...
Ursula von der Leyen is about to face the most serious challenge to her leadership since she became European Commission ...
Merkel ran in the first elections of a united Germany in December 1990 and won narrowly in a constituency she would represent ...
Last month, he brought a nonbinding motion calling for many more migrants to be turned back at Germany's borders to ...
Friedrich Merz, who is poised to become Germany’s chancellor in a CDU-led government, has extensive experience as a lawyer ...
His explosive bid to tighten migration rules with the support of far-right votes in parliament reveals a man willing to ...