The latest survey shows the CDU/CSU bloc dropping by two percentage points, with the Left Party gaining ground. It comes just ...

Merz’s conservative CDU party received backing from the AfD to push through a motion to toughen immigration laws. In their first direct TV debate ahead of the February 23 vote, Scholz said Merz ...

Merz was born in 1955 into a conservative, Catholic family in the North Rhine-Westphalia town of Brilon, in central Germany, and joined the CDU’s youth wing while still in school. He entered ...

With just two weeks to go (until election day on February 23) will the German elections, a number of new, national polls underline the lead of the CDU (31%), with the AfD holding second place (21% ...

Viewers surveyed on Sunday thought that German Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) narrowly won the TV debate against his rival Friedrich Merz from the conservative CDU. In a survey conducted by the ...

German election campaigns usually have a sense of quiet inevitability about them. Accurate polls long in advance give a good idea of who will be chancellor, and with which coalition partners. So it ...