IT IS A calm and confident Friedrich Merz who greets The Economist on February 7th at a luxury golf resort in Stromberg, a ...
An 80-year firewall has been shattered as the centre-right offers to team up with the far-right AfD to pass tougher ...
You have to make a decision. Do you want to have the party of [Chancellor] Olaf Scholz and all those eunuchs? Or are you on ...
Germany will hold a snap national election on Feb. 23 following the collapse of Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s three-way coalition.
Fresh protests against the extreme-Right drew massive crowds in Germany on Saturday, including 250,000 people in Munich, ...
Friedrich Merz is a familiar face of his conservative party's old guard. Politically, he has never come across as ...
The leaders of the CDU/CSU bloc, Friedrich Merz and Markus Söder, told their supporters in Nuremberg their victory would keep the far-right AfD at bay. But protesters across Germany are angry at the ...
Over the past decade and beyond, the CDU has undergone a significant identity shift under former Chancellor Angela Merkel.