Friedrich Merz, believes the upcoming elections are as important as the country's first federal vote in 1949. Speaking at an ...

With opposition leader Friedrich Merz likely to be Germany's next chancellor, experts weigh in on whether his tough China ...

Friedrich Merz said a new push for a free trade deal with the US could "prevent a dangerous spiral of tariffs." The ...

Friedrich Merz is a longtime rival of Angela Merkel who has tried to move their party back to the right.

Friedrich Merz, the leader of Germany's main conservative party and frontrunner to be the country's next chancellor, is ...

Only unforeseen circumstances could prevent Friedrich Merz, the hard-talking chief of the CDU conservative party, from ...

Friedrich Merz is likely to be the next chancellor of Germany. But the CDU leader will usher in a generational shift, moving ...

German Christian Democrat party boss Friedrich Merz campaigning in regional elections in Erfurt, Germany. August 21, 2024. (Steffen Prößdorf/Wikimedia Commons) BERLIN (CN) — Out of Germany's roiling ...

The campaign is well underway, with polls showing Scholz’s party trailing the conservative opposition Union bloc led by ...

He now wants to unseat Chancellor Olaf Scholz and take over as Germany's leader. At the age of 69, Merz would become the oldest person to take office as the Federal Republic's head of government ...

And if Christian Democrat (CDU) leader Friedrich Merz wins the race, and wins big, he will feel emboldened to undertake a series of overdue economic reforms. However, there are far more events out of ...

Other parties vying to win the upcoming election also criticized the tech billionaire after he doubled down on his support ...