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

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

More than 200,000 protesters have demonstrated in Munich against far-right extremism ahead of the German general election ...

The frontrunner to become chancellor has bold plans for economic reform, but a flirtation with the far-right has hurt his ...

As elections approach, leader of the opposition CDU presents voters with a centre-right cocktail that is remixed on a daily ...

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

The former German chancellor said it was not right to remain silent after her party, the conservative CDU, relied on votes ...

Merz, leader of the Christian Democrats, had sought to restrict immigration rules with the support of the Alternative for ...

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

Friedrich Merz and his Christian Democrats broke a political taboo by working with the hard-right Alternative for Germany to toughen rules on immigration. It did not pay off. By Christopher F.

Chancellor hopeful Friedrich Merz criticizes Elon Musk’s support to far-right AfD party, his controversial posts about ...

An 80-year firewall has been shattered as the centre-right offers to team up with the far-right AfD to pass tougher ...