As Germany enters the final few weeks of its election campaign, the man poised to be the next chancellor has doubled down on ...

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

Friedrich Merz doubles down on ‘need for change of policy’ even after Bundestag rejects AfD-backed migration bill ...

Opposition leader Friedrich Merz has put demands for a more restrictive approach to migration at the centre of his campaign ...

with the help of a far-right party — a move that drew strong criticism of the front-runner in the campaign for next month's ...

Four weeks before Germany’s snap election, the political temperature is rising as the campaign shifts onto the contentious ...

These are dramatic days in the usually dull world of German politics. Last Wednesday, midway through a fiercely fought ...

Friedrich Merz broke a political taboo by aligning with ... Both the victory and defeat had to do with the central issue of the electoral campaign: stopping mass immigration to Germany and ...

Former chancellor’s intervention exposes deep rift within country’s conservatives over how to handle the far right’s rising ...

A Tougher Stance on Iran: Although direct military intervention is ruled out, Merz has indicated a more confrontational ...

The sweat was dripping off Friedrich Merz after the front-runner to become Germany’s next chancellor saw his bid to outflank an ascendant far right spectacularly backfire in the ...