Mr Merz’s prosperous upbringing in the Sauerland, a well-to-do, rural Catholic region in Germany’s west, and his early career ...

The incoming chancellor’s coalition compromises leave a lot of space for the AfD.

Angela Merkel revisits one of the most emblematic declarations of her leadership: "We can manage". The former Chancellor of ...

Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel has criticized her center-right Christian Democrats (CDU) for using the support of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) to push a hard-line migration ...

The nominations from the CDU and CSU show that the shift to the right that is taking place in the US under Donald Trump is ...

Former German chancellor Angela Merkel wished Friedrich Merz, head of the incoming government in Berlin, "good fortune, and ...

Germany's chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz cleared the final hurdle Wednesday to launching a new government next week ...

Friedrich Merz, nemesis of former Chancellor Angela Merkel, is confident that he will win the upcoming election — despite his latest controversial moves siding with the far right on curbing ...

Germany ’s center-left Social Democrats have approved a deal to join a new coalition government, paving the way for ...

Seen as a centrist-pragmatist, Mr Klingbeil turned February’s election defeat into a negotiating advantage. As the only ...

Last January Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats (CDU) were ahead in the German opinion polls by fifteen points. She was stepping down after sixteen years as chancellor (prime minister), but she ...