Polls show conservative leader Friedrich Merz’s Union leading ahead of the Feb. 23 election with around 30% support, while ...

Friedrich Merz, the front-runner to become Germany’s next chancellor, relied on votes from the far-right AfD to push an ...

Merz, now 69, represents a sharp rightward turn from Merkel’s centrist legacy. His campaign motto is “A Germany we can be ...

Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel publicly criticized her successor Friedrich Merz for collaborating with the far-right ...

Altkanzlerin Angela Merkel hat sich in den Wahlkampf eingemischt und ihren christdemokratischen Parteifreund Friedrich Merz kritisiert, der im Bundestag mit den Stimmen der AfD eine strikte ...

Politicians from the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) criticized former German Chancellor Angela Merkel for her comments on ...

Former Chancellor Angela Merkel weighed into Germany's contentious election campaign, criticizing fellow Christian Democrat Friedrich Merz over his decision to force through a hard-line immigration ...

Posters of Friedrich Merz, the centre-Right election frontrunner ... discontent with Mr Merz’s predecessor, Chancellor Angela Merkel, who welcomed a million asylum seekers and migrants into ...

Centre-left Chancellor Olaf Scholz told his election rival Friedrich Merz that any ... came to Germany under former CDU chancellor Angela Merkel, whom Merz has strongly criticised.

BERLIN: Opposition leader Friedrich Merz, leading in the race to become ... by breaking with former Chancellor Angela Merkel's immigration-friendly centrism, he could "halve" the far right in ...

Opposition leader Friedrich Merz put migration in the focus of the ... asylum and immigration policy” for a decade — since Angela Merkel, a chancellor from his own party, allowed large numbers ...