I do not approve of someone in Trump’s orbit attempting such direct interference in Germany’s elections,” says Friedrich Merz.

Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is Europe's longest-serving head of government – and the most polarizing. In an NZZ ...

Even if Merz stumbles across the finish line and secures a coalition government, the death knell for Christian democracy may ...

The conservative Christian Democrats have not suffered major damage in the polls despite having accepted support from the far ...

Merz's personal popularity is up four points in fresh polling released on Thursday – and his party gained too.

Germany's former chancellor Angela Merkel has doubled down on her criticism of Christian Democratic Union, or CDU, leader ...

Friedrich Merz hopes to lure away AfD supporters, but will he alienate voters in the ideological middle?

The CDU/CSU parties broke a long-held taboo in German politics last week by relying on far-right votes to push through a bill ...

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