Friedrich Merz, whose conservative party is ahead in polls before Sunday’s election, sees an “epochal rupture” with a United ...

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

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

Merkel ran in the first elections of a united Germany in December 1990 and won narrowly in a constituency she would represent ...

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

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

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

Germany’s far right AfD party looks set to make large gains when the country heads to the polls on Sunday. The centre-right Christian Democrats (CDU/CSU) look set to once again become the largest ...

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

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

Only 15% of women identify Merz as the political leader best suited to become chancellor, compared to 21% of men. The only other candidate demonstrating a similar divide is Alice Weidel, leader of the ...

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