After his conservative bloc came out ahead in German legislative elections with almost 30 percent of the vote, Friedrich Merz must now forge a coalition government. Merz has pledged to revive the ...

leader of the CDU/CSU alliance, will take office in a particularly unstable context. Germany's famed stability, on which Angela Merkel based a 16-year reign, is now a thing of the past.

where his mentor was the late CDU powerbroker Wolfgang Schaeuble. After chancellor Helmut Kohl’s long reign ended in a slush fund scandal, Merkel soon sidelined Merz to take over the party and ...

noting how the CDU/CSU/SPD failed to create huge economic dynamism during the 12 years they ruled together during Merkel's reign. Even during the four years when the CDU governed with the liberal ...

A new deal with the Greens could allow for as much as €1 trillion in new spending for defense and infrastructure over the ...

where his mentor was the late CDU powerbroker Wolfgang Schaeuble. After chancellor Helmut Kohl’s long reign ended in a slush-fund scandal, Merkel soon sidelined Merz to take over the party and ...

where his mentor was the late CDU powerbroker Wolfgang Schaeuble. After chancellor Helmut Kohl's long reign ended in a slush fund scandal, Merkel soon sidelined Merz to take over the party and ...

Loading Voters are expected to oust Olaf Scholz, the unpopular Social Democrat chancellor who succeeded Angela Merkel after her long reign ... of the centre-right CDU recently voted together ...