As the crisis-ridden nation prepares for Feb. 23 elections, the only point most Germans agree on is that things aren’t going ...

This same incrementalism runs through much of what Mr Merz says. Even if talks between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin lead ...

Dogged by protesters, but apparently safe from damage in the polls, Friedrich Merz is putting ... product of a European Union regulation. For Mr. Merz, they were a timely and tidy example of ...

Mr Merz insists that Germany has no choice but to change. “The business model of this country is gone,” he states bluntly. His response begins with a war on red tape in Brussels and Berlin.

IT IS A calm and confident Friedrich Merz who greets The Economist ... if the AfD is to be kept out of power. Mr Merz is tall, thin and a plainer speaker than any German chancellor since at ...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Sunday accused his conservative rival Friedrich Merz of being ready to cooperate with the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), as the rivals faced off in a ...

Viewers surveyed on Sunday thought that German Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) narrowly won the TV debate against his rival Friedrich Merz from the conservative CDU. In a survey conducted by the ...

Standing ovations with slow, rhythmic applause are the order of the day at each campaign appearance of CDU leader Friedrich Merz. The lanky, bespectacled lawyer will turn 70 in November.

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

Chancellor Olaf Scholz, from the left-leaning Social Democrats, and his main rival, the conservative Christian Democrat Friedrich Merz, have presented competing visions for Germany's future.

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 ...