Friedrich Merz is a familiar face of his conservative party's old guard. Politically, he has never come across as ...

More than 200,000 protesters have demonstrated in Munich against far-right extremism ahead of the German general election ...

The frontrunner to become chancellor has bold plans for economic reform, but a flirtation with the far-right has hurt his ...

The front-runner in Germany’s upcoming election says the far-right Alternative for Germany is his “most important opponent” ...

Support for Germany's conservative bloc fell by 2 percentage points to 28% within a week, a survey showed on Tuesday after ...

As Germany enters the final few weeks of its election campaign, the man poised to be the next chancellor has doubled down on ...

Thousands of people protested in Berlin on Sunday against plans to limit immigration proposed by opposition conservatives and ...

As elections approach, leader of the opposition CDU presents voters with a centre-right cocktail that is remixed on a daily ...

The former German chancellor said it was not right to remain silent after her party, the conservative CDU, relied on votes ...

An 80-year firewall has been shattered as the centre-right offers to team up with the far-right AfD to pass tougher ...

Germany's conservative chancellor candidate Friedrich Merz explicitly distanced himself and his party from the far-right AfD, ...

Merz, leader of the Christian Democrats, had sought to restrict immigration rules with the support of the Alternative for ...