BERLIN — Angst (a German word) is spreading across the Bundesrepublik. Amid talk that the country is the “ sick man of Europe ...

Inciting hatred against migrants, rearmament, and cuts in social provisions stood at the centre of the recent prime-time ...

IT IS A calm and confident Friedrich Merz who greets The Economist on February 7th at a luxury golf resort in Stromberg, a ...

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

Even if Merz stumbles across the finish line and secures a coalition government, the death knell for Christian democracy may ...

Candidates for the post of Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Friedrich Merz have repeatedly manipulated figures, as well as cited false facts during the recent television duel, the ZDF TV channel notes.

Dogged by protesters, but apparently safe from damage in the polls, Friedrich Merz is putting a failed immigration gambit ...

Friedrich Merz, the conservative frontrunner for Germany’s next chancellor, has raised concerns over Elon Musk’s relentless ...

Germany's election frontrunner Friedrich Merz on Monday called on his conservative CDU to "stay the course" after mass ...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Sunday accused his conservative rival Friedrich Merz of being ready to cooperate with the ...

With two weeks to go till Germany's Bundestag elections, the two men most likely to be voted chancellor held a heated debate ...

Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel has issued rare public criticism of her successor as the country’s center-right leader ...