Germans are going to the polls on Sunday for national elections. Opinion polls suggest the outcome will be a new chancellor ...

Germany holds its snap national election on Sunday following the collapse of Olaf Scholz's three-way coalition, and the ...

Friedrich Merz, who is poised to become Germany’s chancellor in a CDU-led government, has extensive experience as a lawyer ...

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

Friedrich Merz, the 69-year-old veteran German politician with a hardline stance on migration and an expensive aviation hobby ...

The frontrunner in the race to run Germany is Friedrich Merz, whose Christian Democrats (CDU) are up to 10 points ahead in ...

German nationals are heading to the ballots on February 23, with the country's current Chancellor, Olaf Scholz, down in ...

In a survey out last year, women aged 14 to 29 reported significantly less support for Merz’s party than their male peers ...

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

According to YouGov’s final MRP poll before the election, the far-right AfD’s 145 seats will surpass the 115 projected for ...

Ursula von der Leyen is about to face the most serious challenge to her leadership since she became European Commission ...

Regardless of the outcome, today's German election marks a rejection of the centrist political establishment and a shift to ...