German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Sunday accused his conservative rival Friedrich Merz of being ready to cooperate with the ...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Sunday accused election rival Friedrich Merz of having broken his word by accepting support ...

Dogged by protesters, but apparently safe from damage in the polls, Friedrich Merz is putting a failed immigration gambit ...

IT IS A calm and confident Friedrich Merz who greets The Economist on February 7th at a luxury golf resort in Stromberg, a ...

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

Inciting hatred against migrants, rearmament, and cuts in social provisions stood at the centre of the recent prime-time ...

BERLIN — Angst (a German word) is spreading across the Bundesrepublik. Amid talk that the country is the “ sick man of Europe ...

The leaders of the CDU/CSU bloc, Friedrich Merz and Markus Söder, told supporters in Nuremberg that their victory would keep the far-right AfD at bay. But protesters across Germany are angry at the ...

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

Germany's conservative chancellor candidate Friedrich Merz explicitly distanced himself and his party from the far-right AfD, ...

Conservative leader’s gambit to weaken the postwar ‘firewall’ may be a boon for the AfD ahead of a national election.