Having led his party, the Christian Democrats, to first place in Germany’s election last month, Mr. Merz swiftly assumed the ...

But the heart of the book is her tour de force march through 21st-century German and European politics and history. This is not a tell-all memoir, nor does Merkel waste any time on introspection, ...

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 ...

Christian Democratic Union likely to finish first and ask centre-left Social Democratic Party to form centrist alliance, ...

Friedrich Merz is on course to become post-World War II Germany’s 10th chancellor, the culmination of a yearslong political ...

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, ...

Shunned by liberal Germans, anti-immigration AfD is now the second strongest party in Germany. It's also favored by President Trump's inner circle.