Forget the back-slapping pol ready to banter about the Bundesliga; Friedrich Merz is a former corporate lawyer who wrote a ...

Merz, a man who has never held a government role, is preparing to take the reins in Germany just as the country faces economic and diplomatic crises.

The Christian Democrats won with 28.6% of the vote while the far-right Alternative for Germany came second with 20.8%.

But, although he will not become chancellor for some weeks, Friedrich Merz, who won Germany’s election on February 23rd, has ...

Supporters of Friedrich Merz, the leader of the Christian Democratic ... “But he’s the lesser evil, the least evil.” Sten Hornig, 34, a longtime Christian Democrat voter in Dresden, also ...

Hours after Friedrich Merz's conservatives won Germany's national election, he sent the outgoing Social Democrat government a memorandum dictating how to cooperate during the transition period before ...

Friedrich Merz — the leader of the victorious Christian ... In Eastern Germany, you have a lot of people who think that actually the U.S. is evil and Russia is not that bad.

The German federal polls have closed, and the exit polls appear to have handed the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) a victory ...

Friedrich Merz, who is on course to become post-World War II Germany's 10th chancellor after the country's election, has vowed to prioritize European unity and the continent's security as it ...

Friedrich Merz, head of the conservative Christian Democrats, has vowed to bring stronger leadership to Europe, where the new Trump administration has sowed anxiety. By Steven Erlanger and ...

BERLIN — Friedrich Merz, the leader of Germany’s conservative Christian Democratic Union, is poised to become the country’s next chancellor, with preliminary results showing his party ...