Germany's front-runner Merz: Risk-taker who flirted with far right
Friedrich Merz is a familiar face of his conservative party's old guard. Politically, he has never come across as exhilarating. And yet his explosive bid to tighten migration rules with the support of far-right votes in parliament reveals a man willing to gamble by breaking a major taboo.
Friedrich Merz, a man who has never held a government role, is preparing to take the reins in Germany just as the country ...
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.
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 ...
Germany’s likely next chancellor wants to reboot ties with France, do a free-trade deal with Donald Trump and get tougher on ...
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Merz and His Long March to the Brink of the German ChancelleryFriedrich Merz, a man who has never held a government role, is preparing to take the reins in Germany just as the country ...
A network of more than 700 fake social media accounts has sprung up in the last week of Germany's election campaign, ...
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