Its probable next leader talks about Ukraine, saving the economy and beating the AfD in an exclusive interview ...

Es war keine hitzige Debatte, sondern eher der engagierte Austausch von unterschiedlichen Standpunkten. Die Gegner, hier der Kanzler Olaf Scholz, Titelverteidiger, wenn man so will, und daneben der Ma ...

German conservative leader Friedrich Merz, the favourite to become the country's next chancellor, accused incumbent Olaf Scholz of failing to recognize the poor state of the German economy, as the ...

German election campaigns usually have a sense of quiet inevitability about them. Accurate polls long in advance give a good idea of who will be chancellor, and with which coalition partners. So it ...

Angry protesters in Hamburg, Munich, Cologne and Leipzig said that Friedrich Merz and his Christian Democrats broke Germany’s unwritten post-Nazi promise by all democratic parties to never pass ...

Friedrich Merz has committed to implementing an explosive five-point plan on migration that could clash with his EPP allies. [Thierry Monasse/picture alliance via Getty Images] For months ...