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

Vance made his debut on the international stage by issuing a blistering attack on Europe for 'criminalizing' free speech and ...

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

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 ...

The German political scene was already febrile ... and significant political act since competing for the CDU leadership 25 years ago, Merkel issued a statement condemning Merz’s decision in ...

Alternative for Germany appears to be heading for its strongest national election result yet this month and is fielding its first candidate to lead the country ...

Germany could face months of political uncertainty after the federal election on Feb. 23 as the winning party will almost certainly have to form a ...

Famously sidelined by Merkel before she became chancellor ... there's polite applause for the leader of Germany's conservative CDU opposition, who are consistently ahead in the polls.

EXCLUSIVE: Polling for the Daily Express shows that support for the right-wing Alternative for Deutschland party in Germany rose 11% following yesterday's attack.