If the polls hold, Mr. Scholz’s successor as chancellor could be Friedrich Merz, the now 69-year-old leader of the rival conservative-centrist Christian Democratic Union. He is offering to get ...

A day before the parties presented their election manifestos, Chancellor Olaf Scholz stoked controversy by referring to his rival Friedrich Merz as “Fritze”, a pejorative version of his first ...

“The country is losing competitiveness,” conservative leader Friedrich Merz said on Tuesday during the presentation of his alliance’s election program. “We need a stable government that is capable of ...

Friedrich Merz, an erstwhile rival of former German Chancellor Angela Merkel, has been a beacon of hope for the conservative CDU party. He now wants to unseat Chancellor Olaf Scholz and take over ...

Denial of the genocide of Jews in World War II From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Holocaust denial is considered a serious societal problem in many places where it occurs, and it is illegal in ...