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 ...

"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 ...

Germany's conservatives led by Friedrich Merz won the elections, securing over 28% of the vote, while the far-right AfD ...

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