Germany's conservative opposition leader Friedrich Merz faced sharp criticism on Tuesday for flirting with the far-right AfD party ahead of the Feb. 23 parliamentary elections. Chancellor Olaf ...

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has met in the German Bundestag with Friedrich Merz, the leader of the German opposition and the CDU/CSU (Union) parliamentary group, as well as a candidate for the next ...

BERLIN ― Friedrich Merz, the candidate leading the race to become Germany’s next chancellor, is all but running against his conservative predecessor: Angela Merkel. At a campaign rally in the northern ...

BERLIN - Friedrich Merz, the leading candidate for the chancellery in Germany's upcoming election, said a leaked briefing by Germany's ambassador to the United States heavily criticising Donald ...

KYIV, Jan 22 (Reuters) - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Wednesday that he met with German opposition leader Friedrich Merz, just weeks before a federal election in Germany.

Both Social Democrat Chancellor Olaf Scholz and his rival, the Christian Democrat frontrunner Friedrich Merz, will seek the blessing of the global business elite within hours of each other at the ...

It is likely to see Friedrich Merz, a longstanding Thatcherite/Reaganite opponent of Angela Merkel within the federal republic’s centre-right CDU party, installed as chancellor. Merz’s strength of ...

Friedrich Merz, the frontrunner to become chancellor after Germany’s snap election next month, will take his campaign pitch to the World Economic Forum next week. The leader of the conservative ...

BERLIN — Germany's likely next chancellor, Friedrich Merz, has vowed to restore Germany’s industrial competitiveness by putting climate policies on the back burner. Germany’s economic policies have ...

Merz's delivery at the traditional sausage breakfast may be stiff compared to his rambunctious Bavarian ally Markus Soeder but the rustic setting underscores his campaign motto of "a Germany we ...