The Christian Democratic Union’s victory comes despite a strong showing by the far-right Alternative for Germany, or AfD.

Friedrich Merz looks poised to form a coalition between his center-right alliance and the center-left Social Democrats, but ...

After two torturous months of campaigning, the wait is over. Friedrich Merz, leader of the conservative CDU party, is on ...

Friedrich Merz is the clear winner of the German election. The question now for the conservative leader is how fast and with whom he can cobble together a government - and whether the US will seek to ...

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Friedrich Merz, the man favored by early exit polls to be Germany’s next chancellor after elections Sunday, was forced out of government years ago in a power struggle with Angela Merkel. The leader of ...

Around the world, progressive parties have come to see tight immigration restrictions as unnecessary, even cruel. What if ...

Friedrich Merz has vowed to prioritize European unity and the continent's security as it grapples with the new Trump ...