The country seems ready to move right, but can it shake its torpor?

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

Friedrich Merz, the 69-year-old veteran German politician with a hardline stance on migration and an expensive aviation hobby ...

German conservative leader Friedrich Merz, the front-runner to become the next chancellor, has called for stronger security measures after a car ploughed into a trade union rally in Munich, injuring ...

The opposition leader is expected to be Germany’s next chancellor. No one knows if he has what it takes to steer his country ...

Last week, the CDU broke the mainstream parties' so-called firewall of noncooperation with the far-right Alternative for Germany party, or AfD, as it relied on votes from AfD members in Germany's ...

Chancellor candidate Friedrich Merz and his conservatives slump in poll after far-right backing for migration vote.

Chancellor candidate Friedrich Merz and his conservatives slump in poll after far-right backing for migration vote. The slide in popularity comes after the CDU's candidate for chancellor ...

Germany's election frontrunner Friedrich Merz on Monday called on his conservative CDU to "stay the course" after mass protests against its acceptance of far-right AfD support for calls to ...

Germany's election frontrunner Friedrich Merz on Monday called on his conservative CDU to "stay the course" after mass protests against its acceptance of far-right AfD support for calls to restrict ...

Friedrich Merz, chairman of the conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU), believes he is set to become Germany's next chancellor after the general election on February 23. At the final party ...

Although the bill narrowly failed, all of the AfD voted with Merz. Twelve members of his own CDU party refused to back him. Merz’s courting of the far right is widely seen as politically unnecessary, ...