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

IT IS A calm and confident Friedrich Merz who greets The Economist on February 7th at a luxury golf resort in Stromberg, a ...

To achieve the success he craves, Germany’s likely next chancellor needs liberals and left-wingers to crash and burn.

Germany’s likely next chancellor wants to reboot ties with France, do a free-trade deal with Donald Trump and get tougher on ...

Friedrich Merz, the 69-year-old veteran German politician with a hardline stance on migration and a love of aviation, is the favorite to become the country’s next chancellor in the federal ...

Merz was born on November 11, 1955, and lives among the rolling hills and forests of the Sauerland region of North Rhine-Westphalia state. At six foot six tall, Merz stands out in a crowd and is a ...

Friedrich Merz is a familiar face of his conservative ... who are consistently ahead in the polls. Tall, slim, in a suit and glasses, Merz cuts a calm, conventional, business-like figure as ...

Friedrich Merz, the man expected to become Germany's next ... At six foot six (198 centimetres) tall, Merz stands out in a crowd and is a licenced pilot who sometimes flies his own private jet. A ...