Friedrich Merz is a longtime rival of Angela Merkel who has tried to move their party back to the right.

Olaf Scholz’s government was officially brought down on Monday after he lost a vote of confidence, paving the way for an ...

Chancellor Olaf Scholz lost a confidence vote in the German parliament on Monday, putting the European Union's most populous ...

They are still confused and, understandably, a little angry in the centre of Essen, though the mood is very much calmer than it was a few days ago. Back then, many people were scared witless.

Germany faced a political earthquake. The Bundestag passed a vote of no confidence against Chancellor Scholz, resulting in ...

CDU party officials stress it is not simply about beer gardens, pretzels and other German cultural habits, but “the basic values of our society” and “what unites us”. While Mr Merz has mov ...

Broken beer bottles, trash and discarded crack cocaine pipes litter the Bahnhofsviertel’s streets. The misery in one of Frankfurt’s smallest districts is most visible in the people who inhabit the ...

If the polls hold, Mr. Scholz’s successor as chancellor could be Friedrich Merz, the now 69-year-old leader of the rival conservative-centrist Christian Democratic Union. He is offering to get ...

Berlin (AFP) – German opposition leader Friedrich Merz, who hopes to become the next chancellor, is a millionaire ex-corporate lawyer who promises a return to his CDU party's conservative roots ...