Germany's Christian Democratic Union taps Friedrich Merz as its candidate for chancellor in next national election ...

Merz, who took over as party leader in 2022, has since taken the CDU farther to the right, in a bid to reclaim votes from far ...

Germany’s opposition center-right Christian Democratic Union has chosen its leader Friedrich Merz to be its candidate for ...

CDU leader Merz has postponed a meeting with Erdogan to convince his colleagues to make him Germany's next leader ...

Two men are competing – or is it three? The conservative allied Christian Democratic Union and Christian Social Union parties ...

German conservative leader Friedrich Merz signaled his CDU/CSU alliance is unlikely to partner with the Greens if it wins ...

German Christian Democratic Union Chairman Friedrich Merz secured the conservative candidacy to challenge Olaf Scholz for the ...

The anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany party is expected to perform strongly in Saxony and Thuringia. The two main rivals for the German chancellorship claim a mandate to govern after a tight ...

“We are practically no longer concerned at all, or only very little, with what comes from this coalition,” Friedrich Merz ...

The anti-immigrant Alternative für Deutschland made big gains in Germany’s state elections this Sunday. The grim outcome ...

Germany is particularly sensitive to the strength of its far right. Its modern democratic structures were developed in the ...

The far-right Alternative for Germany, or AfD, had a very successful night in two states, despite its state chapters’ ...