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, a conservative rival of Angela Merkel, is on track to become the next chancellor, though the far-right AfD is ...

The leading candidate, Friedrich Merz, a conservative who has adopted many of the AfD’s hard-line positions on immigration, ...

Christian Lindner triggered early elections last fall with a move meant to save his party. It brought chaos at an inopportune ...

Germans are going to the polls on Sunday for national elections. Opinion polls suggest the outcome will be a new chancellor ...

For the first time since the fall of the Third Reich 80 years ago, there is a real possibility that a party with direct ...