Four candidates are bidding to be Germany’s next leader in Sunday’s election. The would-be chancellors are the incumbent, the ...

Friedrich Merz, the 69-year-old veteran German politician with a hardline stance on migration and an expensive aviation hobby ...

German conservative opposition leader Friedrich Merz on Saturday joined his domestic political rivals in condemning U.S. Vice ...

Election campaign posters showing German Social Democratic Party, SPD, Chancellor Olaf Scholz, top, and his challenger ...

The authorities believe the crash, into a union’s strike-day demonstration, was a deliberate attack. The suspect is a 24-year ...

To achieve the success he craves, Germany’s likely next chancellor needs liberals and left-wingers to crash and burn.

Germany is heading towards a crucial election to elect its next chancellor this Sunday. In the race to become the top leader, ...

The country seems ready to move right, but can it shake its torpor?

Friedrich Merz's Christian Democrats polling at 27%, with far-right AfD at 20% in latest YouGov poll - Anadolu Ajansı ...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and conservative frontrunner Friedrich Merz effectively ruled out serving together in the same ...

BERLIN — Friedrich Merz, Germany's likely next chancellor, told POLITICO he's "very worried" the European Union is heading ...

Merz did not rule out reforming Germany’s debt brake but said that structural reforms particularly in refugee and ...