The frontrunner to become chancellor has bold plans for economic reform, but a flirtation with the far-right has hurt his ...

Former German chancellor Angela Merkel's recent criticism of current conservative leader Friedrich Merz's migration policy ...

Friedrich Merz, the conservative frontrunner in the German election, vowed to hold course on his disputed plan to limit ...

Friedrich Merz, the conservative frontrunner in the German election, is focusing his campaign on proposals to revive the ...

As elections approach, leader of the opposition CDU presents voters with a centre-right cocktail that is remixed on a daily ...

Following the controversial Bundestag votes on migration policy, the CSU and CDU Union parties are trying to distance ...

An 80-year firewall has been shattered as the centre-right offers to team up with the far-right AfD to pass tougher ...

The former German chancellor said it was not right to remain silent after her party, the conservative CDU, relied on votes ...

Merz's personal popularity is up four points in fresh polling released on Thursday – and his party gained too.

Friedrich Merz, the favourite to become Germany's next chancellor, said on Monday that he is ready to lead the country as his ...

Conservative leader’s gambit to weaken the postwar ‘firewall’ may be a boon for the AfD ahead of a national election.