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 ...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and his conservative rival Friedrich Merz faced off in a heated TV debate on Sunday, exactly ...

The sweat was dripping off Friedrich Merz after the frontrunner to become Germany’s next chancellor saw his bid to outflank an ascendant far right spectacularly backfire in the Bundestag.

But this time 12 conservative lawmakers opted not to back the draft bill sponsored by their own leader Friedrich Merz, who opinion polls suggest will be Germany’s next chancellor after a ...

Christian Democratic Union (CDU) leader Friedrich Merz also wants to cut taxes and deregulate the economy. And if the predictions hold true, he will soon be Germany’s new chancellor. Then again, and ...

He has also been accused of breaking his former pledge not to work with AfD in the Bundestag, but Mr Merz has defended his actions as "necessary". Friedrich Merz speaks at a debate about migration ...

Opposition leader Friedrich Merz has put demands for a more restrictive approach to migration at the center of his campaign for the Feb. 23 election since a deadly knife attack last week by a ...

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Germany's Chancellor Olaf Scholz (L) listens to Friedrich Merz (R), Chairman of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU) and parliamentary group leader of the CDU/Christian Social Union in ...

The country's favourite to become next chancellor, Friedrich Merz, proposed a motion asking, among other points, for the end of family reunification for those with subsidiary protection and ...

BERLIN — Friedrich Merz, the conservative frontrunner to become Germany’s next chancellor, suffered a major political defeat on Friday as his controversial immigration bill backed by the far right was ...