In countries across Europe, nativist far-right political parties have dramatically expanded their vote share in recent years, ...

Germany’s probable next leader talks about Ukraine, saving the economy and beating the AfD in an exclusive interview ...

This same incrementalism runs through much of what Mr Merz says. Even if talks between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin lead ...

Friedrich Merz is a familiar face of his conservative party's old guard. Politically, he has never come across as exhilarating. And yet his explosive bid to tighten migration rules with the ...

Standing ovations with slow, rhythmic applause are the order of the day at each campaign appearance of CDU leader Friedrich Merz. The lanky, bespectacled lawyer will turn 70 in November.

Chancellor Olaf Scholz has accused his main rival in Germany’s upcoming election of “constant about turns,” while Friedrich ...

Angry protesters in Hamburg, Munich, Cologne and Leipzig said that Friedrich Merz and his Christian Democrats broke Germany’s unwritten post-Nazi promise by all democratic parties to never pass ...

Speaking to CNN in Berlin following his Christian Democratic Party’s (CDU) convention, Friedrich Merz said he would “control [Germany’s] borders and return those who are coming without ...