Having led his party, the Christian Democrats, to first place in Germany’s election last month, Mr. Merz swiftly assumed the ...
It would be a remarkable comeback for a man pushed aside by Angela Merkel in the early 2000s and ... in 1955 to a well-known conservative, Catholic family. His father was a local judge and a ...
Friedrich Merz is on course to become post-World War II Germany’s 10th chancellor, the culmination of a yearslong political ...
Friedrich Merz, the 69-year-old veteran German politician with a hardline stance on migration and a love of aviation, ...
But who is the old-school conservative who wants to rid his party, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), of former leader Angela Merkel’s centrist legacy ... Merz was born in 1955 into a conservative, ...
When Merkel killed the Maastricht Agreement to bail ... especially representatives of the British Royal Family and - most remarkable - of Coventry, a British city which the German Air Force ...
Mohammad Azmouz, a Syrian barber living in Berlin, said casting his first ever vote on Sunday at the age of 57 was an ...