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

As elections approach, leader of the opposition CDU presents voters with a centre-right cocktail that is remixed on a daily ...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz insists he would' never' cooperate with the far right in the way he says his rival Friedrich ...

Merz had presented parliament with proposals for strict new immigration rules, which were supported by the partly far-right ...

There is some scepticism that the teenage Merz was much of a rabble-rouser. A former classmate recalled that the young Friedrich's disruptive behaviour more often amounted to simply wanting "the ...

Leading politicians in Germany are calling for mass returns, echoing President Donald Trump’s plan to expel undocumented ...

Conservative CDU leader Friedrich Merz, who tabled the plans ... here and elsewhere in Europe attracts an increasing number of young people, particularly men. World leaders rubbed shoulders ...

For the first time in the 75-year post-war history of the German parliament, one of the major parliamentary groups has made ...

And on Wednesday, Friedrich Merz, the leading candidate for chancellor ... they are overwhelmingly young men. Many of them can go back, and many must go back.” Experts contest those statistics.