“This really is democracy’s last bullet,” said CSU leader Markus Söder. While he was referring to the threat from the far ...

Lawmakers from the incoming chancellor’s CDU party signal an end to the “firewall” that saw mainstream politicians refuse to ...

Last January Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats (CDU) were ahead in the German opinion polls by fifteen points. She was stepping down after sixteen years as chancellor (prime minister), but she ...

Friedrich Merz is set to become Germany's next chancellor. Friedrich Merz, chairman of the conservative Christian Democratic ...

Germany's presumptive next leader Friedrich Merz has an "absolute will to power," former chancellor Angela Merkel said on ...

The key positions in the future German government will be held by politicians who are generally favorable to Kyiv.

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The party had already surged to second place in the February Bundestag election, a rise fueled by former Chancellor Angela ...

In the two months since the election, Merz's CDU/CSU bloc has lost four points while the AfD has been rising in opinion polls: Both now stand at 24%. Compared with former Chancellor Angela Merkel ...

Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel holds a picture of her and Friedrich Merz as she speaks during her appearance as a guest on Deutschlandfunk's live radio show "Studio 9" at the Humboldt Forum.