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

The contenders in Germany’s election are making their final appeals to voters. The opposition leader and front-runner vowed ...

Conservative frontrunner Friedrich Merz assured supporters that his leadership would reinforce Germany’s role in Europe and relegate the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) to the political ...

The Sunday vote comes amid an economy in the doldrums, big questions over Europe's security posture, and a surging far-right.

As Sunday’s snap federal election nears, political parties are intensifying their efforts in the final stretch to drum up ...

Germans go to the polls Sunday. Chancellor Scholz's Social Democrats are likely to lose to the conservative CDU party, as the ...

Friedrich Merz of the Christian Democratic Union is expected to be Germany's next chancellor.

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

Friedrich Merz faces urgent economic and geopolitical crises. But to form a coalition he needs to turn foes into friends – ...

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

Germany's opposition leader Friedrich Merz is the front-runner in the country's election campaign, with his center-right ...

As Germany heads to the polls, a look at the politician cultivating the anti-immigrant party’s ‘image of competence’.