He became the leader of his Christian Democratic Union party after longtime Chancellor Angela Merkel — a former rival — stepped down in 2021. Merz has taken his party in a more conservative ...

Friedrich Merz — the leader of the victorious Christian Democratic Union-Christian Social Union alliance — is a U.S.-loving ...

Election posters on a street in Dusseldorf, Germany, show the top candidates for chancellor: Robert Habeck of the Green Party, Friedrich Merz of the CDU, and Olaf Scholz of the SPD, from left (AP ...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz may have been dubbed the "Scholzomat ... centrist governance under Scholz and his predecessor Angela Merkel. The antithesis of a flashy political showman, Scholz ...

The 69-year-old CDU candidate is set to become chancellor at a time when Germany is going through a deep economic, security ...

When Olaf Scholz campaigned for the chancellorship in 2021, he presented himself as Angela Merkel’s natural heir. The pitch was simple: another reliable, steady leader who would manage Germany ...

"The Germans are obviously done with Olaf Scholz", who was "seen by many as the face of the ... distancing themselves from ...

Germany holds its snap national election on Sunday following the collapse of Olaf Scholz's three-way coalition, and the ...

Meanwhile the governing centre-left SPD has slumped to third place in what looks set to be a disastrous result for Chancellor Olaf ... conservative Chancellor Angela Merkel, who led Germany ...

The 69-year-old CDU leader Friedrich Merz is a major favourite for the German chancellorship after Sunday's snap election.