The front-runner to become Germany's next chancellor, Friedrich Merz, has expressed optimism about constructive European cooperation with US President Donald Trump. "I think he will be an interesting ...

The "e-patient file for all" is causing a stir. If Merz (CDU) has his way, privacy will soon cost extra. Anyone who is ...

Friedrich Merz and his Christian Democrats broke a political taboo by working with the hard-right Alternative for Germany to toughen rules on immigration. It did not pay off. By Christopher F.

Start here Germany's center-left governing parties have cast doubt on whether conservative leader Friedrich Merz can still be trusted not to bring the far-right Alternative for Germany ...

BERLIN — The front-runner to become Germany’s next chancellor, Friedrich Merz, has prompted fierce backlash after relying on far-right votes to push a motion through parliament — breaking a ...

(Bloomberg) -- Friedrich Merz, the conservative front-runner ... “I give the voters in Germany the guarantee that there will be a real turnaround in economic policy and asylum policy,” Merz said in ...

Friedrich Merz, the centre-Right leader of the Christian ... “I give voters in Germany the guarantee that there will be a real turnaround in economic policy and asylum policy,” he told Bild ...