BERLIN ― Friedrich Merz, the candidate leading the race to become Germany’s next chancellor, is all but running against his conservative predecessor: Angela Merkel. At a campaign rally in the northern ...

BERLIN - Friedrich Merz, the leading candidate for the chancellery in Germany's upcoming election, said a leaked briefing by Germany's ambassador to the United States heavily criticising Donald ...

Both Social Democrat Chancellor Olaf Scholz and his rival, the Christian Democrat frontrunner Friedrich Merz, will seek the blessing of the global business elite within hours of each other at the ...

BERLIN, Jan 18 (Reuters) - Opposition leader Friedrich Merz, the frontrunner to become Germany's next chancellor, said the second presidency of Donald Trump would bring clarity for the European ...

It is likely to see Friedrich Merz, a longstanding Thatcherite/Reaganite opponent of Angela Merkel within the federal republic’s centre-right CDU party, installed as chancellor. Merz’s strength of ...

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 ...

Friedrich Merz, candidate for German Chancellor and party chairman of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), arrives at the winter retreat of the CDU federal executive at the Design Offices Hamburg ...

Merz's delivery at the traditional sausage breakfast may be stiff compared to his rambunctious Bavarian ally Markus Soeder but the rustic setting underscores his campaign motto of "a Germany we ...