As Germany heads to the polls, a look at the politician cultivating the anti-immigrant party’s ‘image of competence’.

Germany could face months of political uncertainty after the federal election on Sunday as the winning party will almost certainly have to form a ...

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

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

Berlin (CNN) — Germans are going to the polls on Sunday in national elections. Opinion polls suggest the outcome will likely be a new chancellor and a new governing coalition. Usually a little dry and ...

And yet it is anything but guaranteed how party chairman Friedrich Merz can govern a country in which the far-right Alternative for Germany comes second, polarization hits record levels, and ...

The viral photo shows First Lady Melania Trump kissing Justin Trudeau on his cheek after he did the same with the ex-German chancellor Angela Merkel ...

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Friedrich Merz, whose conservative party is ahead in polls before Sunday’s election, sees an “epochal rupture” with a United ...

PETER SPARDING is Senior Vice President and Director of Policy at the Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress and ...

Friedrich Merz is set to be Germany’s next chancellor as CDU-CSU leads, with his policies and AfD ties reshaping politics.

Europe is a case in point. Vice President JD Vance delivered the painful truth at the Munich Security Conference, and the ...