The 69-year-old CDU leader Friedrich Merz is a major favourite for the German chancellorship after Sunday's snap election.

Come Sunday (February 23), will the voting gods smile on Friedrich Merz? The leader of the Christian Democratic Union is the ...

While polling suggests Germany's far-right AfD party will fare well, it's very unlikely to be part of the next government of ...

Germans are set to take to the polling stations on Sunday to decide on their next government in Sunday's federal election.

Merz, 69, promises fundamental policy shifts, including stricter migration controls and market-friendly reforms to revive ...

Sunday's vote is being held more than half a year ahead of schedule after centre-left Chancellor Olaf Scholz's three-way ...

Germans are going to the polls on Sunday for national elections. Opinion polls suggest the outcome will be a new chancellor ...

An economic slump, an immigration crisis and the lifting of a security blanket provided for decades by the U.S. are issues on ...

For Germans heading to the polls for a snap election, climate is not quite as important a factor as it used to be.

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

The far-right AfD – which is anti-reform – trails the CDU on 21 per cent, with the ruling SPD on 16 per cent and the Greens ...

Triggered after the breakdown of the coalition led by Social Democrat Chancellor Olaf Scholz, the campaign for the February ...