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

Germany’s economy is stalled and its politics fractured. But it sees an opening for a new chancellor to lead Europe’s ...

The Sunday vote comes amid an economy in the doldrums, big questions over Europe's security posture, and a surging far-right.

Friedrich Merz, a man who has never held a government role, is preparing to take the reins in Germany just as the country ...

Donald Trump is smashing up assumptions about America’s place in Europe’s security architecture that perhaps held faster in ...

Conservative frontrunner Friedrich Merz stepped up his attacks on rival Robert Habeck from the Greens as the campaign ahead of Germany’s federal elections enters the final stretch.

Come Sunday (February 23), will the voting gods smile on Friedrich Merz? The leader of the Christian Democratic Union is the ...

The US president and his administration have maintained a combative stance toward Europe, including Germany and Ukrainian ...

Merz, 69, promises fundamental policy shifts, including stricter migration controls and market-friendly reforms to revive ...

An economic slump, an immigration crisis and the lifting of a security blanket provided for decades by the U.S. are issues on ...

The 69-year-old CDU leader Friedrich Merz is a major favourite for the German chancellorship after Sunday's snap election.