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 ...

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 ...

The far-right, anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany surged to become the second-largest political force in the country.

Centre-right opposition leader Friedrich Merz declared victory in Germany’s national election on Sunday after exit polls indicated his bloc was in the lead. Acknowledging the challenges ahead ...

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After his conservative bloc came out ahead in German legislative elections with almost 30 percent of the vote, Friedrich Merz must now forge a coalition government. Merz has pledged to revive the ...

After Germans voted on Sunday, the center-right Christian Democrat leader Friedrich Merz is likely to become ... Schmitz has covered Germany's levelheaded management of the COVID-19 pandemic, the rise ...

Early projections of Germany's national election show that Friedrich Merz, the candidate for the center-right Christian Democrats, is poised to become the country's next chancellor. His conservative ...