Bidding to be Germany’s next leader are the incumbent, the leader of the opposition, the vice chancellor, and a far-right ...

Friedrich Merz is on track to become Germany’s next chancellor, with his party, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), and its ...

Friedrich Merz, who is poised to become Germany’s chancellor in a CDU-led government, has extensive experience as a lawyer ...

Friedrich Merz, whose conservative party is ahead in polls before Sunday’s election, sees an “epochal rupture” with a United ...

If anything unites the parties in Germany’s election campaign, it is running away from the former chancellor, whose legacy ...

After a two-year lead in the polls, Friedrich Merz is largely expected to become German chancellor after the ... comeback for a man pushed aside by Angela Merkel in the early 2000s and who failed ...

PETER SPARDING is Senior Vice President and Director of Policy at the Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress and ...

"The coming weeks will become a moment of truth for the conservative CDU and for Germany." Merz took over the CDU after Merkel, with whom he had often been at odds, stepped down as chancellor in 2021.

But Germany is now being buffeted as well ... Enter – or rather, re-enter – former chancellor Angela Merkel. In the years following her retirement from politics (before the 2021 election ...

Friedrich Merz, the 69-year-old veteran German politician with a hardline stance on migration and a love of aviation, is the favorite to become the country’s next chancellor in the federal ...

Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Thursday issued a rare public rebuke of Germany's main opposition leader, Friedrich Merz, for accepting help from the far-right to push tough new ...