Friedrich Merz is a familiar face of his conservative party's old guard. Politically, he has never come across as ...
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz may have been dubbed the "Scholzomat" for his stiff personal style, but he has sought to ...
The journalist and economic analyst has just published 'Kaput', a devastating portrait of Germany's decline as an industrial ...
President Frank-Walter Steinmeier… (FILES) United Nations (UN) envoy for the Western Sahara Horst Koehler adjusts his glasses as he ... then opposition leader Angela Merkel, who went on to ...
If anything unites the parties in Germany’s election campaign, it is running away from the former chancellor, whose legacy ...
It would be a remarkable comeback for a man pushed aside by Angela Merkel in the early 2000s and who failed to take charge of his party twice. He left politics altogether for two decades ...
But who is the old-school conservative who wants to rid his party, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), of former leader Angela Merkel’s centrist legacy? His long-time rival’s decision to ...
(CNN) — Friedrich Merz, the 69-year-old veteran German politician with a hardline stance on migration and a love of aviation, is the favorite to become the country’s next chancellor in the ...