Friedrich Merz, the 69-year-old veteran German politician with a hardline stance on migration and an expensive aviation hobby ...

Friedrich Merz, the man expected to become Germany's next chancellor, has vowed to rule Europe's top economy by returning to his Christian Democrats' conservative roots, help business and crack down ...

Olaf Scholz rebuked U.S. Vice President JD Vance for suggesting that far-right parties should not be shut out of government.

Germany’s Christian Democrat leader Friedrich Merz has broken a long-established “firewall” isolating the far right. A vote ...

Sidelined by Angela Merkel in the early 2000s, Friedrich Merz left politics for 20 years until she announced her retirement in 2018.

The vice president gave a blistering speech to allies, dispensing with national security issues to instead chide European ...

This same incrementalism runs through much of what Mr Merz says. Even if talks between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin lead ...

The opposition leader is expected to be Germany’s next chancellor. No one knows if he has what it takes to steer his country ...

With just two weeks to go (Feb 23 rd ) will the German elections, a number of new, national polls underline the lead of the ...

Friedrich Merz is a familiar face of his conservative party's old guard. Politically, he has never come across as ...

The frontrunner to become chancellor has bold plans for economic reform, but a flirtation with the far right has hurt his ...