The 69-year-old CDU leader Friedrich Merz is a major favourite for the German chancellorship after Sunday's snap election.

Sidelined by Angela Merkel in the early 2000s, Friedrich Merz left politics for 20 years until she announced her retirement in 2018.

Friedrich Merz, who is poised to become Germany’s chancellor in a CDU-led government, has extensive experience as a lawyer ...

This may be the year the firewall collapses. The AfD is now polling at about 22 percent nationally and seems destined for a ...

It is a pivotal moment for Germany's far-right AfD ahead of national elections Sunday. The party is polling at 21% — likely ...

At the most newsworthy Munich Security Conference in recent memory last weekend, Germany’s likely next chancellor did all he ...

Here are five reasons for Germany's ongoing economic slump: Moscow's decision to cut off natural gas supplies to Germany in ...

Germany’s far right AfD party looks set to make large gains when the country heads to the polls on Sunday. The centre-right Christian Democrats (CDU/CSU) look set to once again become the largest ...

In the U.S., most of what gets posted online, even if it's hate-filled, is protected by the First Amendment as free speech.

Germany's former Chancellor Angela Merkel sharply rebuked Christian Democratic ... last week that claimed two lives, including a child's. The attacker, a 28-year-old Afghan national, injured ...