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

The election for the 630-seat Bundestag is taking place on Sunday, Feb. 23. It’s happening seven months early after a snap election was agreed.

BERLIN — Angst (a German word) is spreading across the Bundesrepublik. Amid talk that the country is the “ sick man of Europe ...

The frontrunner in the race to run Germany is Friedrich Merz, whose Christian Democrats (CDU) are up to 10 points ahead in ...

In the must-see video above, more than 200,000 people protested against the far-right Alternative fur Deutschland (AfD) in ...

German conservative leader Friedrich Merz, the favourite to become the country's next chancellor, accused incumbent Olaf Scholz of failing to recognize the poor state of the German economy, as the ...

Two weeks today, Friedrich Merz, leader of the conservative CDU party in Germany, will most likely be one step closer to ...

Friedrich Merz, leader of the opposition and the man most likely to become the Germany’s next chancellor, came one step ...

Speaking to CNN in Berlin following his Christian Democratic Party’s (CDU) convention, Friedrich Merz said he would “control [Germany’s] borders and return those who are coming without ...

Simply sign up to the German politics myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Friedrich Merz’s high-stakes gamble to enlist the far right in pressuring the German government to tighten ...

when Friedrich Merz pushed through a non-binding motion on tougher immigration rules, by relying on votes from the far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD). He insisted there had been no ...