Germany’s conservatives are desperate to avoid a three-party coalition, but the outcome depends on how many small parties ...

A crisis-ridden, politically unstable Germany is coping with a brash and unpredictable Trump presidency. Germans look set to alter course and push for more independence after snap elections on Feb. 23 ...

Chancellor candidate Friedrich Merz and his conservatives slump in poll after far-right backing for migration vote.

In the run up to Germany’s snap general elections Jeremy Cliffe goes to Ludwigshafen, a symbol of Germany's economic woes.

Two months after the collapse of Olaf Scholz’s center-left coalition ... the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), it is Friedrich Merz who currently leads the pack. Expected to secure ...

Friedrich Merz is the leader of the main conservative party, the Christian Democratic Union, or CDU, and is the favorite to replace incumbent Chancellor Olaf Scholz, of the Social Democrats ...

CDU chief Friedrich Merz, the election frontrunner ... Centre-left Chancellor Olaf Scholz warned that his rival could no longer be trusted and voiced fears that if Merz wins the February 23 ...

BERLIN, Feb 2 (Reuters) - German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Sunday said it was ... the country home of prime ministers north-west of London. Friedrich Merz, the opposition leader and frontrunner ...

BERLIN, Feb 5 (Reuters) - German Chancellor Olaf Scholz's Social Democrats ... Furthermore, half of voters believe conservative leader Friedrich Merz has torn down a firewall against the far ...