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

When Germans vote on Sunday, conservative Friedrich Merz is the strong favourite to become the next chancellor after a ...

Germany's conservative election frontrunner Friedrich Merz on Wednesday called on voters to give him a strong mandate to ...

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

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

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 ...

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

For the United States to put its considerable clout behind a German political party whose leaders minimize Nazi crimes is a blunder of historic proportions.

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

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