Germany’s far-right AfD party looks set to make large gains when the country heads to the polls on Sunday. The centre-right ...

Friedrich Merz, a man who has never held a government role, is preparing to take the reins in Germany just as the country ...

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

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

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

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

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