To achieve the success he craves, Germany’s likely next chancellor needs liberals and left-wingers to crash and burn.

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

German voters go to the polls this Sunday to elect a new parliament, with Merz's centre-right CDU/CSU leading the polls at ...

Germany’s likely next chancellor suggested he’d consider governing with the center left — but not the AfD or the liberals.

Friedrich Merz's Christian Democrats polling at 27%, with far-right AfD at 20% in latest YouGov poll - Anadolu Ajansı ...

Germany's upcoming elections, marked by a contentious campaign and a rising far-right movement, look set to select ...

With just two weeks to go (Feb 23 rd ) will the German elections, a number of new, national polls underline the lead of the ...

Before Sunday's Bundestag elections, the Christian Democrats are maintaining a clear lead. The Left Party has gained slightly ...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and conservative frontrunner Friedrich Merz effectively ruled out serving together in the same ...

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

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Merz was born in 1955 into a conservative, Catholic family in the North Rhine-Westphalia town of Brilon, in central Germany, and joined the CDU’s youth wing while still in school. He entered ...