Germany holds its snap national election on Sunday following the collapse of Olaf Scholz's three-way coalition, and the ...

Friedrich Merz, who is poised to become Germany’s chancellor in a CDU-led government, has extensive experience as a lawyer ...

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

Friedrich Merz, the 69-year-old veteran German politician with a hardline stance on migration and an expensive aviation hobby ...

If anything unites the parties in Germany’s election campaign, it is running away from the former chancellor, whose legacy ...

German nationals are heading to the ballots on February 23, with the country's current Chancellor, Olaf Scholz, down in ...

Regardless of the outcome, today's German election marks a rejection of the centrist political establishment and a shift to ...

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

In a survey out last year, women aged 14 to 29 reported significantly less support for Merz’s party than their male peers ...

According to YouGov’s final MRP poll before the election, the far-right AfD’s 145 seats will surpass the 115 projected for ...

The deeper rot in German governance will require more fundamental reforms than any coalition is likely to deliver.

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