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 ...

BRUSSELS — Maybe the Franco-German economic engine will soon sputter back to life after all. Germany’s likely next chancellor, Friedrich Merz, can be good news for the European Union, France’s newly ...

BERLIN, Jan 8 (Reuters) - German opposition leader Friedrich Merz, tipped to become chancellor in next month's election, said Germany would spend more on defence but would not commit to a NATO ...

Merz, 69, became leader of the centre-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) in 2022. He has consistently called China “an increasing threat to [German] security”, been critical of Chancellor ...

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 ...

I grew up in Minnesota before moving to Mississippi in middle school. I graduated from Mississippi State University in May 2023 with a Bachelor's degree in Geoscience with a Broadcast Meteorology ...