If anything unites the parties in Germany’s election campaign, it is running away from the former chancellor, whose legacy ...

Friedrich Merz’s high-stakes gamble to enlist the ... election campaign and drawn condemnation from former chancellor Angela Merkel. The leader of the Christian Democrats, who is the frontrunner ...

Friedrich Merz broke ... the last conservative Chancellor, Angela Merkel, which has become a deadly burden not only to her party but to Germany as a whole. Merz, who was forced out of the CDU ...

Friedrich Merz, the front-runner to become Germany’s next chancellor, relied on votes from the far-right AfD to push an ...

Its probable next leader talks about Ukraine, saving the economy and beating the AfD in an exclusive interview ...

Merkel blamed party leader Friedrich Merz for going back on a pledge not to work with the AfD. Merkel noted that party leader Friedrich Merz had said in November that no measures should be passed ...

Friedrich Merz eventually left politics in 2009, several years after rival Angela Merkel won the CDU party's leadership Merz glosses over this bitter episode in a brief autobiographical post on ...

Angela Merkel thwarted Friedrich Merz’s ambition to succeed her. Now they have buried the hatchetOpens in new window ] He succeeded on the third attempt, to ongoing despair of Merkelist CDU ...

BERLIN — The front-runner to become Germany’s next chancellor, Friedrich Merz ... from former German chancellor Angela Merkel in which she criticized Merz. Merkel, a former leader of Merz ...

BERLIN — Angela Merkel isn’t done. The former German chancellor doubled down on her criticism of Christian Democratic Union (CDU) leader Friedrich Merz, arguing that his party crossed a red line by ...