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

By Thomas Escritt and Sarah Marsh BERLIN (Reuters) -Last weekend, Germany's far-right lawmakers vowed to dress smartly, ...

When it comes to social and diversity politics, the CDU has wasted no time marking their political territory. And it's at the ...

The top job has been late in coming for Merz, a trained lawyer who saw his ascent derailed by former Chancellor Angela Merkel in the early 2000s and who even turned his back on active politics for ...

Angela Merkel or Gerhard Schröder? Which of the former politicians who served as chancellor before the current officeholder, ...

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

Merkel and Trump have had a conflict-ridden relationship and in her memoir she said that for Trump, all countries were in competition with each other and that the success of one was the failure of the ...

Germany's presumptive next leader Friedrich Merz has an "absolute will to power," former chancellor Angela Merkel said on Thursday. Merkel's comments came one day after her centre-right party, the ...

BERLIN — Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel criticized the migration policy of incumbent Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Wednesday as a threat to freedom of movement in the EU. “We have to focus on ...

Friedrich Merz has been elected as Germany's 10th post-World War II chancellor, the culmination of a long political career that was once sidelined by his party's iconic leader, Angela Merkel.