Germany's likely new Chancellor inherits a series of plans for health reform and must deal with an ageing population and underinvestment in infrastructure. Ferry Biedermann reports.

Forget the back-slapping pol ready to banter about the Bundesliga; Friedrich Merz is a former corporate lawyer who wrote a ...

Compared to last October, the vote for the CDU/CSU is down slightly vis a vis the polls, the AfD have not rallied as much as ...

Germany’s conservative opposition leader Friedrich Merz won a victory in a national election on Sunday (February 23, 2025), while Alternative for Germany doubled its support in the strongest ...

Friedrich Merz looks poised to form a coalition between his center-right alliance and the center-left Social Democrats, but ...

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s mainstream conservatives led by Friedrich Merz won the country ... including responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. The election took place seven months earlier than ...

Friedrich Merz's conservative opposition secured a modest victory in Germany's election on Sunday, while the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) saw its support double, marking the party's ...

Germany's mainstream conservatives led by Friedrich Merz won the country's national election, ensuring that Ukraine has an ...

Germany’s conservative leader, Friedrich Merz, is poised to become the country’s next chancellor after his Christian Democratic Union (CDU) secured the largest share of votes in the national ...

Friedrich Merz, the leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), emerged victorious, replacing Chancellor Olaf Scholz in what is being hailed as a major political upset. Merz’s coalition ...

Merz's claim in 2004 that Germany's tax rules should be simple enough to be calculated while holding a beer mug is still talked about today. Friedrich Merz (70) is the leader of the Christian ...