Friedrich Merz has committed to implementing an explosive five-point ... Similar comments came from EPP-led Poland. The CDU ...

IT IS A calm and confident Friedrich Merz who greets The Economist on February 7th at a luxury golf resort in Stromberg, a ...

Dogged by protesters, but apparently safe from damage in the polls, Friedrich Merz is putting a failed immigration gambit ...

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

German conservative leader Friedrich Merz, the front-runner to become the country's next chancellor, has vowed to work ...

Friedrich Merz broke a political taboo by aligning with the AfD on immigration, winning a symbolic vote but facing backlash ...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and his likely successor, Friedrich Merz, promised no collaboration with the extreme right on ...

Friedrich Merz, a candidate for the position of chancellor of Germany, has expressed deep concern over recent developments in ...

Friedrich Merz is a familiar face of his conservative party's old guard. Politically, he has never come across as exhilarating. And yet his explosive bid to tighten migration rules with the ...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz from the left-leaning SPD and his main rival Friedrich Merz from the conservative CSU/CDU bloc ...

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 ...

The breaking of a taboo among mainstream German parties on cooperation with the far right looks set to complicate efforts to ...