Speaking during a news conference, Merz laid out a vision of a Germany restored to its former strength and reliability. “The future government, the future coalition, will reform and invest to ...

A new poll shows the Alternative für Deutschland is now Germany’s most popular political party, marking another turning point for the right-wing group’s rise. The anti-immigration ...

Friedrich Merz has reached an agreement to form a new government (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi) The leader of Germany’s Christian Democratic Union party Friedrich Merz has sealed a deal to form a ...

Germany's future government of conservatives and centre-left Social Democrats have agreed a raft of measures to curb illegal migration, including rejecting asylum seekers, enabling deportations to ...

The leader of Germany’s Christian Democratic Union party Friedrich Merz has sealed a deal to form a new government with the country’s Social Democrats. The new government’s priorities are to ...

BERLIN, April 11 (Reuters) - Friedrich Merz, leader of the conservative German party CDU is set to be elected chancellor on May 6, party sources said on Friday. The conservatives and their centre ...

Those issues as well as the rise of the far-right AfD party in Germany put pressure on the CDU and the SPD to quickly form a government that froze out the AfD. Merz will face the economic blow of ...

Friedrich Merz is on course to become Germany's 10th post-World War II chancellor, the culmination of a long political career that was once sidelined by his party’s iconic leader, Angela Merkel ...

Analysis Based on factual reporting, although it Incorporates the expertise of the author/producer and may offer interpretations and conclusions. BERLIN – In the winter of 2018, Friedrich Merz ...

Germany’s Far-Right AfD party topped a major poll for the first time on Wednesday as Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz was seeking to cobble together a coalition government to keep it out of power.