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

Such a plan would mark a step-change in Germany’s traditionally conservative approach to public borrowing. Berlin in 2009 ...

Friedrich Merz, leader of Germany's CDU/CSU parliamentary bloc, is set to lead the next government after his party came first ...

Compared to last October, the vote for the CDU/CSU is down slightly vis a vis the polls, the AfD have not rallied as much as ...

BERLIN—Friedrich Merz is the clear winner of the German election ... task of turning around a German economy that has barely ...

Results this morning indicate that Friedrich Merz's center-right Christian Democrats ... Schmitz has covered Germany's levelheaded management of the COVID-19 pandemic, the rise of right-wing ...

Germany’s mainstream conservatives led by Friedrich Merz won the country’s national election, ensuring that Ukraine has an ...

Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz plans to free Germany from the fiscal straitjacket that former leader Angela Merkel had ...

Friedrich Merz, front right ... including responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. The election took place seven months earlier than originally planned after Scholz’s unpopular coalition collapsed ...

BERLIN — Germany's mainstream conservatives led by Friedrich Merz won the ... including responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. The election took place seven months earlier than originally planned ...