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

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and his conservative rival Friedrich Merz faced off in a heated TV debate on Sunday, exactly ...

German conservative leader Friedrich Merz, the favourite to become the country's next chancellor, accused incumbent Olaf Scholz of failing to recognize the poor state of the German economy, as the ...

Standing ovations with slow, rhythmic applause are the order of the day at each campaign appearance of CDU leader Friedrich Merz. The lanky, bespectacled lawyer will turn 70 in November.

German election campaigns usually have a sense of quiet inevitability about them. Accurate polls long in advance give a good idea of who will be chancellor, and with which coalition partners. So it ...

The leaders of the CDU/CSU bloc, Friedrich Merz and ... he no longer trusted the CDU or Merz on the issue of AfD cooperation. "One this is very clear: After Mr. Merz broke his word, nobody can ...

Would Merz make a good chancellor? A third of those surveyed were in favor of the CDU leading the future German government, some 4% more than in last month's Deutschlandtrend. Another 17% are in ...

BERLIN — Early signs suggest Germany’s conservatives may have lost their big bet. Chancellor candidate Friedrich Merz’s high-stakes gamble to align with the far right on tough immigration measures ...

FLENSBURG, Germany — Friedrich Merz is Germany’s likely next chancellor, but how he will form a coalition government is looking increasingly uncertain. At a campaign event on Friday in the northern ...

Discover all the benefits of Euractiv +. BERLIN – Germany‘s election frontrunner Friedrich Merz received a boost in a hotly anticipated poll released on Thursday, which suggested that voters ...

Germany's chancellor hopeful Friedrich Merz has pledged to confront US President Donald Trump over Elon Musk's attempts to influence elections in European countries. In an interview with Berliner ...

At a joint appearance at the CSU's small party conference on Saturday, both CDU leader Friedrich Merz and CSU chairman Markus Söder emphasized that they would remain part of the "firewall ...