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

The Sunday vote comes amid an economy in the doldrums, big questions over Europe's security posture, and a surging far-right.

Concern is growing over the far-right Alternative for Germany party’s rise ahead of the German election. Its U.S. supporters ...

Germans are going to the polls on Sunday for national elections. Opinion polls suggest the outcome will be a new chancellor ...

Germany’s economy is stalled and its politics fractured. But it sees an opening for a new chancellor to lead Europe’s ...

Friedrich Merz, a man who has never held a government role, is preparing to take the reins in Germany just as the country ...

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

The leading candidate, Friedrich Merz, a conservative who has adopted many of the AfD’s hard-line positions on immigration, ...

German politicians made a final scramble for votes Saturday on the eve of crucial elections in which conservatives are ...

An economic slump, an immigration crisis and the lifting of a security blanket provided for decades by the U.S. are issues on ...

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