IT IS A calm and confident Friedrich Merz who greets The Economist on February 7th at a luxury golf resort in Stromberg, a ...

BERLIN — Angst (a German word) is spreading across the Bundesrepublik. Amid talk that the country is the “ sick man of Europe ...

Dogged by protesters, but apparently safe from damage in the polls, Friedrich Merz is putting a failed immigration gambit ...

No one closes rank quite like Germany’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU ... the day at each campaign appearance of CDU leader Friedrich Merz. The lanky, bespectacled lawyer will turn 70 ...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Sunday accused his conservative rival Friedrich Merz of being ready to cooperate with the ...

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

Sankt Ingbert, Germany - February 06, 2025 The president of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and candidate for chancellor ...

Over the past decade and beyond, the CDU has undergone a significant identity shift under former Chancellor Angela Merkel.

While the Christian Democrat camp is comfortably leading in the polls, the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) is ...

Viewers surveyed on Sunday thought that German Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) narrowly won the TV debate against his rival ...

Candidates for the post of Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Friedrich Merz have repeatedly manipulated figures, as well as cited false facts during the recent television duel, the ZDF TV channel notes.