The contenders in Germany’s election are making their final appeals to voters. The opposition leader and front-runner vowed ...

Friedrich Merz, a man who has never held a government role, is preparing to take the reins in Germany just as the country ...

Germans go to the polls Sunday. Chancellor Scholz's Social Democrats are likely to lose to the conservative CDU party, as the ...

Come Sunday (February 23), will the voting gods smile on Friedrich Merz? The leader of the Christian Democratic Union is the ...

Germany’s economy is stalled and its politics fractured. But it sees an opening for a new chancellor to lead Europe’s ...

The 69-year-old CDU leader Friedrich Merz is a major favourite for the German chancellorship after Sunday's snap election.

The Sunday vote comes amid an economy in the doldrums, big questions over Europe's security posture, and a surging far-right.

Conservative frontrunner Friedrich Merz assured supporters that his leadership would reinforce Germany’s role in Europe and relegate the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) to the political ...

An economic slump, an immigration crisis and the lifting of a security blanket provided for decades by the U.S. are issues on ...

German conservative leader Friedrich Merz jubilantly promised the end of Chancellor Olaf Scholz's administration as a heated ...

As Sunday’s snap federal election nears, political parties are intensifying their efforts in the final stretch to drum up ...

Merz, 69, promises fundamental policy shifts, including stricter migration controls and market-friendly reforms to revive ...