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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Sunday accused his election rival Friedrich Merz of having broken his word by accepting support from the far-right AfD to push an anti-immigration motion through ...

The center-right CDU's Friedrich Merz and the center-left SPD's Olaf ... observed in other EU countries such as Czech Republic, Poland, Estonia and Latvia. Whether Germany remains Ukraine ...