Mr Merz is Chairman of the CDU - Germany's center-right party. It was headed for 18 years, from 2000 until 2018, by Angela Merkel. Friedrich Merz's stance on migration In January, Ms Merkel ...

However, with Merz’s attempts to move the CDU further to the right than it was under Merkel’s leadership, the two parties could clash on issues such as immigration and welfare spending.

Then German Chancellor Angela Merkel of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) speaks at a press conference at the CDU ...

leader of the CDU/CSU alliance, will take office in a particularly unstable context. Germany's famed stability, on which Angela Merkel based a 16-year reign, is now a thing of the past.

According to the exit polls, it looks likely former chancellor Angela Merkel’s CDU party will win power under new leader Friedrich Merz. “This is a very controversial issue, as we’ve heard ...

The vote immediately provoked a storm of condemnation, including from within the CDU, with Merkel taking a critical stance. It also triggered large-scale demonstrations in several cities across ...

Merkel’s political home, the centre-right Christian Democratic (CDU), is on course to finish first and is likely to reach out to the centre-left Social Democratic Party (SPD) to form a centrist ...

Early exit polls cited by multiple outlets project the CDU—the party of former Chancellor Angela Merkel—is expected to get the highest share of votes in this election, likely positioning its ...

where his mentor was the late CDU powerbroker Wolfgang Schaeuble. After chancellor Helmut Kohl's long reign ended in a slush fund scandal, Merkel soon sidelined Merz to take over the party and ...

After which Merz took a backseat in German politics seeing no role for himself in Merkel's CDU and he later went on to criticise Merkel's leadership of the party slamming it as 'idle'. It is ...