The way they’re pardoning people who have been sentenced to years in prison, that will have consequences for America,” Merz ...

As Germany enters the final few weeks of its election campaign, the man poised to be the next chancellor has doubled down on ...

In the run up to Germany’s snap general elections Jeremy Cliffe goes to Ludwigshafen, a symbol of Germany's economic woes.

Friedrich Merz, the CDU’s candidate for chancellor in Germany’s upcoming snap elections in February, is looking to shore up ...

The front-runner in Germany’s upcoming election says the far-right Alternative for Germany is his “most important opponent” ...

The centre-right CDU has been accused of breaking 'taboo' by putting forward a motion to the Bundestag for a stricter ...

Support for Germany's conservative bloc fell by 2 percentage points to 28% within a week, a survey showed on Tuesday after ...

Conservative leader’s gambit to weaken the postwar ‘firewall’ may be a boon for the AfD ahead of a national election.

Merz, leader of the Christian Democrats, had sought to restrict immigration rules with the support of the Alternative for ...

Friedrich Merz and his Christian Democrats broke a political taboo by working with the hard-right Alternative for Germany to ...

Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel has issued rare public criticism of her successor as the country’s center-right leader ...

Germany's conservative chancellor candidate Friedrich Merz explicitly distanced himself and his party from the far-right AfD, after sparking outrage over his cooperation with the AfD last week.