Polls show conservative leader Friedrich Merz’s Union leading ahead of the Feb. 23 election with around 30% support, while ...

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

German Holocaust survivor Eva Umlauf appealed in an open letter on Thursday to conservative opposition leader Friedrich Merz not to align his centre-right CDU/CSU bloc with the far-right Alternative ...

A who's who of German talent signed an open letter calling for political leaders to "uphold democratic values" after a historic vote in the Bundestag that saw anti-immigration proposal pass with the ...

The front-runner to be Germany's next chancellor, Friedrich Merz, has faced criticism for accepting support from the ...

Comparing Friedrich Merz to Viktor Orban is more of a compliment than an insult, State Secretary Zoltan Kovacs wrote.

Trump bump meets reality: Concerns that Chinese startup DeepSeek has come up with a powerful new AI model that can do things better, faster and cheaper than the U.S. front-runners rattled stock ...

Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel criticised the leader of her Christian Democrats (CDU), Friedrich Merz, for drawing on ...

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

R ARELY HAS the Bundestag known such drama. On January 29th, to scenes of uproar in Germany’s parliament, a tiny majority of ...

Friedrich Merz, the frontrunner to become chancellor in February's election, caused an uproar by agreeing to work with the far-right AfD on immigration measures.

Opening the door to leaning on support from the far-right is a gamble for Merz, who believes that his increasingly radical ...