Friedrich Merz, the frontrunner to become Germany's next chancellor, said defence spending targets should be aligned with ...

CDU member Roderich Kiesewetter had posted about an alleged meeting between Vladimir Putin and Olaf Scholz. The SPD said it ...

In a new interview, CDU leader Friedrich Merz has called for drastic changes to Germany's citizenship reform and suggested ...

The German conservatives of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) have included support for Ukraine and a promise to extend ...

The anti-immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has welcomed the mandate received by the far-right Freedom Party of ...

Scholz initially announced that he planned to hold a confidence vote on January 15, but he came under immediate pressure from the center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party to hold them ...

“This is a law that we can support,” said Friedrich Merz, the chairman of the conservative CDU/CSU alliance in Berlin, speaking after the nation’s parliament had cleared the way for new election ...

Polls suggest that Friedrich Merz will be in a strong position to become chancellor after Germany’s Feb. 23 early election, with his Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its Bavarian sister ...

The conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) candidate for chancellor, and apparent frontrunner for early elections in February in Germany, Friedrich Merz, has called for a "positive agenda ...

BERLIN, Dec 30 (Reuters Breakingviews) - Only unforeseen circumstances could prevent Friedrich Merz, the hard-talking chief of the CDU conservative party, from heading the government of Europe’s ...