Merz stands with Angela Merkel after she was elected as new party chairwoman in 2000. - Roberto Pfeil/AP/File Merz attends a virtual CDU party congress in Berlin, on January 22, 2022.

Jens Spahn, the powerful parliamentary leader of Merz's centre-right, faces a reckoning over Covid-era procurement calls that ...

Last week, Friedrich Merz, leader of the German conservative Christian-Democratic Union (CDU) party, won a significant victory and lost an important battle on his journey to become Germany’s ...

Sidelined by Angela Merkel in the early 2000s, Friedrich Merz left politics for 20 years until she announced her retirement in 2018. Skip to content Sky News - back to home ...

Angela Merkel and Friedrich Merz German Chancellor Angela Merkel (Oct. 15, 2019, in Berlin), left, and German corporate lawyer and former parliamentary group leader of the Christian Democratic ...

Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel criticized Friedrich Merz, her successor as leader of the country’s conservatives, on Thursday for pushing through a bill on tighter immigration control ...

Friedrich Merz, an erstwhile rival of former German Chancellor Angela Merkel, has been a beacon of hope for the conservative CDU party. He now wants to unseat Chancellor Olaf Scholz and take over ...

With election win, Friedrich Merz, rival of Angela Merkel, has revenge. The 69-year-old CDU candidate is set to become chancellor at a time when Germany is going through a deep economic, ...

Friedrich Merz broke a political taboo by aligning with the AfD on immigration, winning a symbolic vote but facing backlash and a major legislative defeat. ... Even Angela Merkel, ...

Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel criticized Friedrich Merz, her successor as leader of the country’s conservatives, on Thursday for pushing through a bill on tighter immigration control ...