Germany's front-runner Merz: Risk-taker who flirted with far right
Friedrich Merz is a familiar face of his conservative party's old guard. Politically, he has never come across as exhilarating. And yet his explosive bid to tighten migration rules with the support of far-right votes in parliament reveals a man willing to gamble by breaking a major taboo.
Friedrich Merz, a man who has never held a government role, is preparing to take the reins in Germany just as the country ...
Germans are going to the polls on Sunday for national elections. Opinion polls suggest the outcome will be a new chancellor ...
Germany’s economy is stalled and its politics fractured. But it sees an opening for a new chancellor to lead Europe’s ...
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The Sunday vote comes amid an economy in the doldrums, big questions over Europe's security posture, and a surging far-right.
While polling suggests Germany's far-right AfD party will fare well, it's very unlikely to be part of the next government of ...
The 69-year-old CDU leader Friedrich Merz is a major favourite for the German chancellorship after Sunday's snap election.
Friedrich Merz, who is poised to become Germany’s chancellor in a CDU-led government, has extensive experience as a lawyer ...
Friedrich Merz, the 69-year-old veteran German politician with a hardline stance on migration and an expensive aviation hobby ...
For Germans heading to the polls for a snap election, climate is not quite as important a factor as it used to be.
A network of more than 700 fake social media accounts has sprung up in the last week of Germany's election campaign, ...
Friedrich Merz, a conservative rival of Angela Merkel, is on track to become the next chancellor, though the far-right AfD is ...
As Sunday’s snap federal election nears, political parties are intensifying their efforts in the final stretch to drum up ...
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