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

Standing ovations with slow, rhythmic applause are the order of the day at each campaign appearance of CDU leader Friedrich Merz. The lanky, bespectacled lawyer will turn 70 in November.

Auf ihrem Parteitag präsentiert sich eine trotzige CDU – jeder erzählt jedem, was er in diesen aufgewühlten Tagen erlebt. Vor ...

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

Zehntausende strömen zur Demo gegen CDU-Kanzlerkandidat Friedrich Merz und die Union und für die Brandmauer gegen die AfDr.

Am Sonntagabend schenkten sich Kanzler Scholz und sein Herausforderer Merz nichts. Merz warf dem Kanzler mehrfach Realitätsferne durch. Der reagierte sauer.

Friedrich Merz, the frontrunner to become Germany’s next leader, is “highly concerned” about recent developments in the United States under Donald Trump’s second presidency. The German chancellor ...

German election campaigns usually have a sense of quiet inevitability about them. Accurate polls long in advance give a good idea of who will be chancellor, and with which coalition partners. So it ...

Speaking to CNN in Berlin following his Christian Democratic Party’s (CDU) convention, Friedrich Merz said he would “control [Germany’s] borders and return those who are coming without ...

Friedrich Merz, the conservative frontrunner in the German election, vowed to hold course on his disputed plan to limit ...