The frontrunner to become chancellor has bold plans for economic reform, but a flirtation with the far-right has hurt his ...

Merz, leader of the Christian Democrats, had sought to restrict immigration rules with the support of the Alternative for ...

Friedrich Merz caused dismay within his party for saying the law was so important he was prepared to pass it with support ...

The sweat was dripping off Friedrich Merz after the frontrunner to become Germany’s next chancellor saw his bid to outflank ...

Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel has issued rare public criticism of her successor as the country’s center-right leader ...

The bill’s defeat — after Merz secured the passage of a similar motion on Wednesday — suggests that some of his own ...

The CDU's candidate for chancellor Friedrich Merz has travelled to Kyiv.

Last week, the CDU broke the mainstream parties' so-called firewall of noncooperation with the far-right Alternative for ...

Friedrich Merz, CDU candidate for chancellor and CDU federal chairman speaks at the 37th federal party conference of the CDU ...

Germany's conservative chancellor candidate Friedrich Merz explicitly distanced himself and his party from the far-right AfD, after sparking outrage over his cooperation with the AfD last week.

Merz drew protests after he put a motion to parliament last week calling for Germany to turn back many more migrants at its ...

Friedrich Merz and his Christian Democrats broke a political taboo by working with the hard-right Alternative for Germany to toughen rules on immigration. It did not pay off. By Christopher F.