But, although he will not become chancellor for some weeks, Friedrich Merz, who won Germany’s election on February 23rd, has ...

Who is Germany’s election winner and how will he fare against AfD leader Alice Weidel? - Friedrich Merz has taken aim at the US and says Europe must stand up for itself ...

There is some scepticism that the teenage Merz was much of a rabble-rouser. A former classmate recalled that the young Friedrich's disruptive behaviour more often amounted to simply wanting "the ...

Friedrich Merz of the Christian Democratic Union is set to become Germany's Chancellor after a modest election victory. Known for controversial remarks about refugees and minorities, Merz has faced ...

The Christian Democrats won with 28.6% of the vote while the far-right Alternative for Germany came second with 20.8%.

Exit polls suggest that Friedrich Merz, the candidate for the conservative Christian Democrats who has vowed to bring stronger leadership in Europe, will be Germany’s next leader. The hard-right AfD ...

Friedrich Merz faces a host of political, economic and foreign policy challenges as he puts together a working coalition ...

Only after the CDU was defeated in the 2021 general election was Merz finally crowned as party leader and, almost two years later, at the beginning of 2024, as the candidate of the joint conservative ...

Forget the back-slapping pol ready to banter about the Bundesliga; Friedrich Merz is a former corporate lawyer who wrote a ...

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

The Die Linke star behind the party’s rise in recent elections says there is ‘real momentum for progressive politics’.

Germany's likely next chancellor Friedrich Merz has said his centre-right CDU/CSU and the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) ...