In 2003, he famously argued that German tax rules should be simple enough to calculate on the back of a beer coaster. Merz, who appealed to the CDU’s more traditionalist, right-wing faction ...

Already, Merz has pledged to increase defense spending and put Paris, Warsaw, and London at the lead of a new policy to shore ...

BERLIN (AP) — The contenders in Germany's election made their final appeals to voters Saturday, with opposition leader and front-runner Friedrich Merz vowing to revive the stagnant economy and defend ...

he famously argued that German tax rules should be simple enough to calculate on the back of a beer coaster. A growing feud with Merkel eventually pushed him to leave politics, however. Merz, who ...

Chancellor-designate faces opposition in his own party and a delicate balance in reconvened Bundestag, which must approve ...