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

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

As elections approach, leader of the opposition CDU presents voters with a centre-right cocktail that is remixed on a daily ...

More than 200,000 protesters have demonstrated in Munich against far-right extremism ahead of the German general election ...

The frontrunner to become chancellor has bold plans for economic reform, but a flirtation with the far-right has hurt his ...

The way they’re pardoning people who have been sentenced to years in prison, that will have consequences for America,” Merz ...

An 80-year firewall has been shattered as the centre-right offers to team up with the far-right AfD to pass tougher ...

The front-runner in Germany’s upcoming election says the far-right Alternative for Germany is his “most important opponent” ...

Conservative leader’s gambit to weaken the postwar ‘firewall’ may be a boon for the AfD ahead of a national election.

Friedrich Merz and his Christian Democrats broke a political taboo by working with the hard-right Alternative for Germany to ...

The former German chancellor said it was not right to remain silent after her party, the conservative CDU, relied on votes ...

The centre-right CDU has been accused of breaking 'taboo' by putting forward a motion to the Bundestag for a stricter ...