Polls show conservative leader Friedrich Merz’s Union leading ahead of the Feb. 23 election with around 30% support, while ...

Friedrich Merz, the front-runner to become Germany’s next chancellor, relied on votes from the far-right AfD to push an ...

German Holocaust survivor Eva Umlauf appealed in an open letter on Thursday to conservative opposition leader Friedrich Merz not to align his centre-right CDU/CSU bloc with the far-right Alternative ...

Altkanzlerin Angela Merkel hat sich in den Wahlkampf eingemischt und ihren christdemokratischen Parteifreund Friedrich Merz kritisiert, der im Bundestag mit den Stimmen der AfD eine strikte ...

The front-runner to be Germany's next chancellor, Friedrich Merz, has faced criticism for accepting support from the ...

The CDU party chief, who leads in the polls to become the next chancellor, said he would collect votes from all parties to ...

Merz's plan would have German border guards simply deny entry to migrants trying to enter from other Schengen nations to gain asylum. Migration a key issue in Germany's 2025 election campaign ...

Merz called for tighter border controls and more police powers, a signal he is putting migration at the heart of his election campaign in a bid to counter the far right, whose anti-immigrant theme ...

Merz said his CDU and its Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union (CSU), would submit motions "regardless of who agrees to them." "I don't look to the right or the left," Merz said.

Conservative Friedrich Merz lays out foreign policy vision Vows to regain allies' trust after disarray of outgoing centre-left government Wants to create national security council to coordinate ...

BERLIN ― Friedrich Merz, the candidate leading the race to become Germany’s next chancellor, is all but running against his conservative predecessor: Angela Merkel. At a campaign rally in the northern ...

BERLIN — Friedrich Merz, the likely next chancellor of Germany, has pledged sweeping changes to the country’s migration policies as soon as he enters office. The conservative Christian Democratic ...