If anything unites the parties in Germany’s election campaign, it is running away from the former chancellor, whose legacy ...

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

EXCLUSIVE: Polling for the Daily Express shows that support for the right-wing Alternative for Deutschland party in Germany ...

Germany could face months of political uncertainty after the federal election on Feb. 23 as the winning party will almost ...

The frontrunner in the race to run Germany is Friedrich Merz, whose Christian Democrats (CDU) are up to 10 points ahead in ...

BERLIN (AP) — Alternative for Germany appears to be heading for its strongest national election result yet this month and is ...

AfD has support across Germany and is represented in all but two of the 16 state legislatures, but the party is strongest in ...

Enter – or rather, re-enter – former chancellor Angela Merkel. In the years following her retirement from politics (before the 2021 election that brought Scholz and his centre-left coalition ...

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

The country once seen as a climate trailblazer is in danger of becoming a laggard, as the party almost certain to lead the ...