Friedrich Merz is on course to become the post-World War II Germany’s 10th chancellor, the culmination of a yearslong ...

The Christian Democratic Union’s victory comes despite a strong showing by the far-right Alternative for Germany, or AfD.

Merz, a man who has never held a government role, is preparing to take the reins in Germany just as the country faces ...

The Christian Democrat, who appeared to have a path to a stable governing coalition, hopes to lead Europe’s response to ...

Germany's mainstream conservatives have won the country's national election, while a far-right party surged to become the ...

Friedrich Merz’s party has won the most seats in Germany’s election. But after ridiculing the left and embracing far right ...

The centre-right CDU has emerged as the biggest party in the German election, making Merz the most likely to lead a ...

Merz stated that Germany could not accept Arab refugees from Gaza, saying, "We have enough antisemitic young men in this country." ...

The leaders of the CDU/CSU bloc, Friedrich Merz and Markus Söder, told supporters in Nuremberg that their victory would keep the far-right AfD at bay. But protesters across Germany are angry at ...

The AfD seized on his failure to pass the immigration bill Friday, despite the far-right support, as proof the conservatives are unable to enact true change — and as evidence of Merz’s fecklessness.

Friedrich Merz, the 69-year-old veteran German ... had breached the mainstream parties’ “firewall” against the AfD. Merz was born in 1955 into a conservative, Catholic family in the North ...