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

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

German conservative leader Friedrich Merz, the frontrunner to become the country's next chancellor, has called on the EU to ...

With opposition leader Friedrich Merz likely to be Germany's next chancellor, experts weigh in on whether his tough China ...

Friedrich Merz, the CDU candidate for chancellor, argues that Germany will not become a party to the conflict by supplying ...

Friedrich Merz is likely to be the next chancellor of Germany. But the CDU leader will usher in a generational shift, moving ...

Friedrich Merz, an erstwhile rival of former German Chancellor Angela Merkel, has been a beacon of hope for the conservative CDU party. He now wants to unseat Chancellor Olaf Scholz and take over ...

Berlin (AFP) – German opposition leader Friedrich Merz, who hopes to become the next chancellor, is a millionaire ex-corporate lawyer who promises a return to his CDU party's conservative roots as an ...

German politicians said Monday the prospect of Austria's far right coming to power was a "warning" for Berlin's own fractured politics while the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) cheered events ...

Only unforeseen circumstances could prevent Friedrich Merz, the hard-talking chief of the CDU conservative party, from ...

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 ...

And if Christian Democrat (CDU) leader Friedrich Merz wins the race, and wins big, he will feel emboldened to undertake a series of overdue economic reforms. However, there are far more events out of ...