Friedrich Merz is on course to become 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 ...

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 ...

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

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He has a checkered history in German politics — from challenging Angela Merkel to causing controversy by aligning with the far right. Friedrich Merz, chairman of the conservative Christian ...

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

Angela Merkel’s long-anticipated memoir ... and President Barack Obama adopted the same position after Merkel negotiated the Minsk agreements, a diplomatic framework that spectacularly ...

Nor is her appointment to the new Bundestag role without some controversy: Klöckner gave up her position as CDU treasurer after NGO Lobbycontrol pointed out that, as Bundestag president ...