Election front-runner Friedrich Merz wants stricter migration policies following a deadly stabbing in Aschaffenburg. Some in Germany are surprised at how willing he seems to be to cooperate with the ...

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

As Germany enters the final few weeks of its election campaign, the man poised to be the next chancellor has doubled down on ...

The attack in Aschaffenburg is the latest in a series of violent incidents in Germany, intensifying fears surrounding ...

Friedrich Merz, Germany's opposition leader, proposes stringent migration policies, creating pressure on Chancellor Olaf Scholz's administration ahead of the February election. Merz aims to control ...

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

Opposition leader Friedrich Merz, whose party leads the polls, put migration in the spotlight following a knife attack a week ago in the Bavarian city of Aschaffenburg by a rejected Afghan ...

Merz's personal popularity is up four points in fresh polling released on Thursday – and his party gained too.

Chancellor Olaf Scholz has accused his main rival in Germany’s upcoming election of “constant about turns,” while Friedrich ...

Speaking to CNN in Berlin following his Christian Democratic Party’s (CDU) convention, Friedrich Merz said he would ... In January an attack in Aschaffenburg left two people dead, including ...