Former German leader reiterates swipe at chancellor candidate from her own Christian Democratic Union ahead of Feb. 23 ...

As Germans prepare to vote on Feb. 23, an almighty argument over whether mainstream parties should work with the ...

Sidelined by Angela Merkel in the early 2000s, Friedrich Merz left politics for 20 years until she announced her retirement in 2018.

If anything unites the parties in Germany’s election campaign, it is running away from the former chancellor, whose legacy ...

Friedrich Merz is a familiar face of his conservative party's old guard. Politically, he has never come across as ...

The frontrunner in the race to run Germany is Friedrich Merz, whose Christian Democrats (CDU) are up to 10 points ahead in ...

Angela Merkel, which has become a deadly burden not only to her party but to Germany as a whole. Merz, who was forced out of the CDU’s leadership more than two decades ago and returned only ...

Friedrich Merz and his Christian Democrats broke a political taboo by working with the hard-right Alternative for Germany to ...

Friedrich Merz, chancellor candidate of Germany’s Christian Democrats, stumbled in his bid to end Social Democrat-Greens ...

Merkel decided to allow more than a million asylum seekers into Germany, many of whom came from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan. There is no love lost between the two CDU leaders. Merkel thwarted Merz ...

The CDU relied on AfD to pass a motion for the controversial bill, breaking a decades-long tradition of excluding the ...

Alternative for Germany appears to be heading for its strongest national election result yet this month and is fielding its ...