Sidelined by Angela Merkel in the early 2000s, Friedrich Merz left politics for 20 years until she announced her retirement in 2018.

Friedrich Merz is a familiar face of his conservative party's old guard. Politically, he has never come across as ...

Dogged by protesters, but apparently safe from damage in the polls, Friedrich Merz is putting a failed immigration gambit ...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz once said that reading JD Vance's book, "Hillbilly Elegy," brought him to tears, but this ...

His father served as a local judge, as does Friedrich Merz's wife Charlotte to this day. The younger Merz joined the CDU while still at school. In an interview 25 years ago with the German ...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, centre left, and Friedrich Merz, CDU candidate for chancellor, before a TV election debate in Berlin,, 2025 ...

Public transport strike in Berlin starts, Scholz and Merz clash over far right in election debate, police investigate drones ...

This same incrementalism runs through much of what Mr Merz says. Even if talks between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin lead ...

The opposition leader is expected to be Germany’s next chancellor. No one knows if he has what it takes to steer his country ...

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