IT IS A calm and confident Friedrich Merz who greets The Economist on February 7th at a luxury golf resort in Stromberg, a ...

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

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has described President Donald Trump's suggestion that the U_S_ could take ownership of the ...

In Germany, the favorite to be the next chancellor, Friedrich Merz, will also not have the most comfortable of weekends after his gamble to use support from the far-right Alternative for Germany to ...

German opposition leader and Christian Union parties floor leader Friedrich Merz speaks after the debate and a voting about migration at the German parliament Bundestag.

Conservative CDU leader Friedrich Merz, who tabled the plans ... "Thinking about how the AfD fraction will cheer and their happy faces makes me feel uncomfortable," he told lawmakers.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz described President Donald Trump’s suggestion that the US could take ownership of the Gaza ...

With German elections just weeks away, hundreds of thousands have taken to the streets to denounce the far-right.

Alternative for Germany helped push an immigration restriction proposal over the threshold, breaking the "firewall" surrounding the right-wing party.

(AP Photo/Markus Schreiber) CDU leader Friedrich Merz rebuffed ... the AfD fraction will cheer and their happy faces makes me feel uncomfortable,” Merz said. AfD leaders will seek to capitalize ...

But perhaps those who feel this way will find themselves pitched against other newly assertive and delighted demob-happy ... and his likely replacement Friedrich Merz; Israeli president Isaac ...