Germany’s political system is set up to exclude extremists. Yet the country is waking up to a new political reality that has ...
Exit polls suggest that Friedrich Merz, the candidate for the conservative Christian Democrats who has vowed to bring ...
Germany faces its second change of leader in less than four years after the head of the center-right opposition won Sunday’s ...
Friedrich Merz is a familiar face of his conservative party's old guard. Politically, he has never come across as ...
The Sunday vote comes amid an economy in the doldrums, big questions over Europe's security posture, and a surging far-right.
Friedrich Merz is on the brink of achieving a long-held goal of becoming Germany's next chancellor after initial results ...
Euractiv Editor-in-Chief Matthew Karnitschnig has warned that the far-right Alternative for Germany will “continue to strengthen” and could get to the point where the CDU has “no other option” but to ...