The centre-right CDU has been accused of breaking 'taboo' by putting forward a motion to the Bundestag for a stricter ...

Friedrich Merz, nemesis of former Chancellor Angela Merkel, is confident that he will win the upcoming election — despite his ...

Germany's conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) is convening in Berlin on Monday to vote on an "immediate action ...

A pho­to­graph accom­pa­ny­ing an art­icle on Janu­ary 31 showed mem­bers of Ger­many’s CDU party applaud­ing Friedrich Merz, not mem­bers of the AfD as wrongly stated in the cap­tion.

Friedrich Merz, the front-runner to become Germany’s next chancellor, relied on votes from the far-right AfD to push an ...

Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel has issued rare public criticism of her successor as the country’s center-right leader ...

Merz, whose centre-right bloc currently tops the polls, is toughening his stance on migration ahead of federal elections next ...

On Wednesday, with the support of the Alternative for Germany, the Christian Democrats passed a motion on migration policy ...

Merz, now 69, represents a sharp rightward turn from Merkel’s centrist legacy. His campaign motto is “A Germany we can be ...

The sweat was dripping off Friedrich Merz after the frontrunner to become Germany’s next chancellor saw his bid to outflank ...

The bill’s defeat — after Merz secured the passage of a similar motion on Wednesday — suggests that some of his own ...

Germany's Social Democrats are doubling down on criticism of conservative opposition leader Friedrich Merz, after a controversial bill on tighter migration policy tabled by his bloc was narrowly ...