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

Who do I call if I want to speak to Europe? The question was famously attributed to former U.S. Secretary of State Henry ...

Friedrich Merz, head of the conservative Christian Democrats, has vowed to bring stronger leadership to Europe, where the new ...

Watch the trailer for 'Merkel,' a documentary about Germany's historic chancellor, Angela Merkel, who ruled for 16 years.

Merz, a man who has never held a government role, is preparing to take the reins in Germany just as the country faces ...

Merz would return German politics to the right and the traditional conservatism of the Christian Democrats. It would be a remarkable comeback for a man pushed aside by Angela Merkel in the early ...

The 69-year-old CDU candidate is set to become chancellor at a time when Germany is going through a deep economic, security ...

If anything unites the parties in Germany’s election campaign ... voice of dissent that rocked the country’s political scene: Angela Merkel, the once-beloved former chancellor, who called ...

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

The leader of the victorious CDU, Friedrich Merz, has a checkered history in German politics — from challenging Angela Merkel ...

Mr Merz is Chairman of the CDU - Germany's center-right party. It was headed for 18 years, from 2000 until 2018, by Angela Merkel ... challenger quit frontline politics for many years.

With Angela Merkel and Olaf Scholz ... I do think there’s a shift in terms of the political debate in Germany that goes toward tougher migration, that goes a bit more against “woke” policies.