Die Grünen stehen in Umfragen bei 14 Prozent und sind vom Kanzleramt weit entfernt. Was ihnen Mut macht? Dass nun endlich mal ...

Tucking into beer and pretzels, the frontrunner to become Germany's next chancellor, conservative millionaire Friedrich Merz, is showing off his folksy side. With his CDU leading in the polls but ...

German opposition leader Friedrich Merz has floated proposing legislation to tighten Germany's border controls, and claimed it would be on the SPD and Greens if he had to pass it with votes from ...

BERLIN: Opposition leader Friedrich Merz, leading in the race to become Germany's next chancellor, pledged on Monday (Jan 27) to bring a law on restoring border controls before parliament this ...

BERLIN — Friedrich Merz, the likely next chancellor of Germany, has pledged sweeping changes to the country’s migration policies as soon as he enters office. The conservative Christian Democratic ...

BERLIN — Germany’s opposition leader vowed Thursday to bar people from entering the country without proper papers and to step up deportations if he is elected chancellor next month, as a knife ...

Conservative Friedrich Merz lays out foreign policy vision Vows to regain allies' trust after disarray of outgoing centre-left government Wants to create national security council to coordinate ...

BERLIN ― Friedrich Merz, the candidate leading the race to become Germany’s next chancellor, is all but running against his conservative predecessor: Angela Merkel. At a campaign rally in the northern ...

01/24/2025 January 24, 2025 Friedrich Merz is the frontrunner to become Germany’s next leader after February’s elections. In this episode, DW’s Richard Walker and Michaela Küfner break it ...