Friedrich Merz, a leading German political figure, has raised serious concerns about what he calls a “new and unsettling ...

Friedrich Merz, the conservative frontrunner in the German election, vowed to hold course on his disputed plan to limit ...

The sweat was dripping off Friedrich Merz after the front-runner to become Germany’s next chancellor saw his bid to outflank an ascendant far right spectacularly backfire in the ...

Elon Musk is by no means the cause of the AfD’s popularity, but his embrace of the extremist party has given it a global profile and new credibility in German politics.

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