The contenders in Germany’s election are making their final appeals to voters. The opposition leader and front-runner vowed ...

The Sunday vote comes amid an economy in the doldrums, big questions over Europe's security posture, and a surging far-right.

Germans go to the polls Sunday. Chancellor Scholz's Social Democrats are likely to lose to the conservative CDU party, as the ...

Germany’s economy is stalled and its politics fractured. But it sees an opening for a new chancellor to lead Europe’s ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Friedrich Merz, a man who has never held a government role, is preparing to take the reins in Germany just ...

Friedrich Merz is a familiar face of his conservative party's old guard. Politically, he has never come across as ...

Come Sunday (February 23), will the voting gods smile on Friedrich Merz? The leader of the Christian Democratic Union is the ...

The 69-year-old CDU leader Friedrich Merz is a major favourite for the German chancellorship after Sunday's snap election.

Conservative frontrunner Friedrich Merz assured supporters that his leadership would reinforce Germany’s role in Europe and relegate the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) to the political ...

An economic slump, an immigration crisis and the lifting of a security blanket provided for decades by the U.S. are issues on ...

Germany's opposition leader Friedrich Merz is the front-runner in the country's election campaign, with his center-right ...