Last week, the CDU broke the mainstream parties' so-called firewall of noncooperation with the far-right Alternative for ...
Conservative leader’s gambit to weaken the postwar ‘firewall’ may be a boon for the AfD ahead of a national election.
Friedrich Merz, the front-runner to become Germany’s next chancellor, relied on votes from the far-right AfD to push an ...
Ever since the end of World War II, Germany's mainstream political parties have vowed to not work with extremist right-wing ...
Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel has issued rare public criticism of her successor as the country’s center-right leader ...
A Tougher Stance on Iran: Although direct military intervention is ruled out, Merz has indicated a more confrontational ...
Friedrich Merz, likely the next chancellor, shocks the country by promising to control its borders.
The leader of Germany's conservative Christian Social Union (CSU), the Bavarian sister party to the Christian Democrats (CDU) ...
Friedrich Merz, chancellor candidate of Germany’s Christian Democrats, stumbled in his bid to end Social Democrat-Greens ...
Germany's Chancellor Olaf Scholz (L) listens to Friedrich Merz (R), Chairman of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU) and parliamentary group leader of the CDU/Christian ...
Merz, now 69, represents a sharp rightward turn from Merkel’s centrist legacy. His campaign motto is “A Germany we can be ...