German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Saturday said his conservative rival Friedrich Merz's promises to rule out cooperation with ...

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

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

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 ...

According to Söder, Friedrich Merz made a "leading decision ... approve changes to migration rules. Chancellor Olaf Scholz has suggested Merz can no longer be trusted not to form a government ...

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

Friedrich Merz with Angela Merkel in 2001 ... what they perceived as an attempt to co-operate with the far right. Olaf Scholz, the SPD incumbent, and the Green candidate, economy minister Robert ...

According to Söder, Friedrich Merz made a "leading decision", with ... for being unwilling to approve changes to migration rules. Chancellor Olaf Scholz has suggested Merz can no longer be trusted not ...

Friedrich Merz, the CDU’s candidate for chancellor in Germany’s upcoming snap elections in February, is looking to shore up ...

Friedrich Merz, the frontrunner to become Germany’s next chancellor ... “Merz can no longer be trusted,” said German Chancellor Olaf Scholz; Robert Habeck, the chancellor candidate for the Greens, ...

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 ...