Friedrich Merz, who is poised to become Germany’s chancellor in a CDU-led government, has extensive experience as a lawyer ...

Friedrich Merz, whose conservative party is ahead in polls before Sunday’s election, sees an “epochal rupture” with a United ...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Opposition Leader Friedrich Merz faced off in a final debate on German television on Wednesday ahead of elections next Sunday. During the debate the candidates ...

German voters go to the polls Sunday to elect a parliament that will determine who runs the country for the next four years.

Friedrich Merz of the Christian Democratic Union is favored to replace Olaf Scholz of the Social Democratic Party as ...

When Germans vote on Sunday, conservative Friedrich Merz is the strong favourite to become the next chancellor after a ...

Germany, votes on Sunday to elect a new parliament that will shape the country's leadership for the next four years. Germany ...

PARIS – The likely victory of Friedrich Merz’s conservatives in Germany’s election on Sunday has officials in Paris hoping the Franco-German tandem will win a new lease on life under a Merz ...

Meanwhile, Germany’s far right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party is riding the wave of Trumpian politics, buoyed by vocal ...

Months after American voters returned Donald Trump to the White House, the 2024 U.S. election is casting a giant shadow over ...

Germans will greet the next government with the stoniest of scepticism. Thorsten Faas, a political scientist at the Free ...