The CDU's (and Merz's) problem is that there's a pretty big pool of people who want less immigration of political asylum seekers (about two thirds of population according to polls). And of those ...

Friedrich Merz is likely to become the next German chancellor after his conservative CDU party topped the vote in elections, exit polls project. The stuttering economy and immigration were major ...

Germany’s center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) declared victory Sunday as exit polls and early results suggest the party garnered the biggest vote share in the country’s elections ...