Friedrich Merz is set to be Germany’s next chancellor as CDU-CSU leads, with his policies and AfD ties reshaping politics.

Friedrich Merz, who is poised to become Germany's chancellor in a CDU-led government, has extensive experience as a lawyer ...

Friedrich Merz, whose conservative party is ahead in polls before Sunday’s election, sees an “epochal rupture” with a United ...

Germany will go to the polls on Sunday, February 23 after a snap election was called in December following the collapse of ...

Friedrich Merz, the 69-year-old veteran German politician with a hardline stance on migration and an expensive aviation hobby ...

Four candidates are bidding to be Germany 's next leader in Sunday's election. The would-be chancellors are the incumbent, ...

Its economic model is broken, its self-confidence shattered and its political landscape fractured. Europe’s former growth ...

In the wake of Trump’s victory—and his administration’s transformation from staunch ally to sneering adversary—Germany’s ...

Meanwhile, Germany’s far right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party is riding the wave of Trumpian politics, buoyed by vocal ...

Friedrich Merz is a familiar face of his conservative party's old guard. Politically, he has never come across as ...

WITH a Nazi grandfather guilty of crimes against humanity, controversial German politician Beatrix von Storch knows only too ...