Friedrich Merz, a leading candidate for Germany's chancellorship, faced a setback as a migration bill he supported failed to ...

German Holocaust survivor Eva Umlauf appealed in an open letter on Thursday to conservative opposition leader Friedrich Merz ...

Friedrich Merz, the frontrunner to become chancellor after Germany’s snap election next month, will take his campaign pitch to the World Economic Forum next week. The leader of the conservative ...

BERLIN — Germany's likely next chancellor, Friedrich Merz, has vowed to restore Germany’s industrial competitiveness by putting climate policies on the back burner. Germany’s economic policies have ...

Merz, 69, became leader of the centre-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) in 2022. He has consistently called China “an increasing threat to [German] security”, been critical of Chancellor ...