Merz, Germany

Conservatives have cooperated with the far-right AfD for the first time, amid growing support from the tech billionaire.
Friedrich Merz’s hard-line shift on migration is a calculated gambit by the German conservative leader to neutralize the far ...
Germany’s parliament has narrowly approved a call by Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s main challenger to turn back many more migrants ...
Germany’s likely next chancellor wants tougher migration measures even with AfD support, triggering a fierce pre-election ...
Germany's ex-chancellor Angela Merkel weighed in Thursday on a controversy flaring ahead of February elections, slamming her party successor for relying on far-right support on the flashpoint issue ...
R ARELY HAS the Bundestag known such drama. On January 29th, to scenes of uproar in Germany’s parliament, a tiny majority of ...
BERLIN — With Germany’s election less than a month away, center-left Chancellor Olaf Scholz has thrown cold water on the prospect of reviving the country’s traditional grand coalition — bluntly ...
Friedrich Merz, the frontrunner to become chancellor in February's election, is making waves by agreeing to work with the far ...
The CDU party chief, who leads in the polls to become the next chancellor, said he would collect votes from all parties to ...
The former chancellor’s intervention exposes a deepening rift within Germany’s conservatives over how to handle the AfD’s ...