Such a plan would mark a step-change in Germany’s traditionally conservative approach to public borrowing. Berlin in 2009 ...

Friedrich Merz, leader of Germany's CDU/CSU parliamentary bloc, is set to lead the next government after his party came first ...

AfD leader Alice Weidel accuses Germany's likely future chancellor Friedrich Merz of "election fraud." She says Merz promised to "close the borders" but did the opposite. Is that true?

Compared to last October, the vote for the CDU/CSU is down slightly vis a vis the polls, the AfD have not rallied as much as ...

Germany’s mainstream conservatives led by Friedrich Merz won the country’s national election, ensuring that Ukraine has an ...

Results this morning indicate that Friedrich Merz's center-right Christian Democrats ... Schmitz has covered Germany's levelheaded management of the COVID-19 pandemic, the rise of right-wing ...

From Paris to Warsaw, Brussels and beyond, the impending arrival of a new man at the top of German politics is being met with giddy excitement.

Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz plans to free Germany from the fiscal straitjacket that former leader Angela Merkel had ...

BERLIN — Germany’s mainstream conservatives led by Friedrich Merz won the country ... including responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. The election took place seven months earlier than originally ...

Friedrich Merz, front right ... including responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. The election took place seven months earlier than originally planned after Scholz’s unpopular coalition collapsed ...

BERLIN — Germany's mainstream conservatives led by Friedrich Merz won the ... including responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. The election took place seven months earlier than originally planned ...