Friedrich Merz is on course to become the post-World War II Germany’s 10th chancellor, the culmination of a yearslong ...

The Christian Democratic Union’s victory comes despite a strong showing by the far-right Alternative for Germany, or AfD.

The Christian Democrat, who appeared to have a path to a stable governing coalition, hopes to lead Europe’s response to ...

Friedrich Merz’s party has won the most seats in Germany’s election. But after ridiculing the left and embracing far right ...

The centre-right CDU has emerged as the biggest party in the German election, making Merz the most likely to lead a ...

Merz stated that Germany could not accept Arab refugees from Gaza, saying, "We have enough antisemitic young men in this country." ...

The leaders of the CDU/CSU bloc, Friedrich Merz and Markus Söder, told supporters in Nuremberg that their victory would keep the far-right AfD at bay. But protesters across Germany are angry at ...

The AfD seized on his failure to pass the immigration bill Friday, despite the far-right support, as proof the conservatives are unable to enact true change — and as evidence of Merz’s fecklessness.

Friedrich Merz, the 69-year-old veteran German ... had breached the mainstream parties’ “firewall” against the AfD. Merz was born in 1955 into a conservative, Catholic family in the North ...

When Germans go to vote in one week's time, after a polarising election campaign overshadowed by a far-right surge, they are expected to hand the chancellery to conservative Friedrich Merz.

Image — Friedrich Merz (R), candidate for chancellor and chairman of the CDU speaks alongside Alice Weidel, candidate for chancellor of the AfD on the ZDF programme Klartext on 13 February 2025 in ...