German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Sunday accused his conservative rival Friedrich Merz of being ready to cooperate with the ...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Sunday accused election rival Friedrich Merz of having broken his word by accepting support ...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Monday touted his performance in a heated TV debate with his conservative rival Friedrich ...

The leaders of the CDU/CSU bloc, Friedrich Merz and Markus Söder, told supporters in Nuremberg that their victory would keep the far-right AfD at bay. But protesters across Germany are angry at the ...

Friedrich Merz is a familiar face of his conservative party's old guard. Politically, he has never come across as ...

Germany's conservative chancellor candidate Friedrich Merz explicitly distanced himself and his party from the far-right AfD, ...

Center-right and center-left chancellor candidates clashed in a fiery debate, exposing deep divisions just weeks ahead of a ...

SPD Chancellor Olaf Scholz and CDU leader Friedrich Merz fought a tough TV duel on Sunday evening - particularly over how to ...

Conservative leader’s gambit to weaken the postwar ‘firewall’ may be a boon for the AfD ahead of a national election.

The first and only live tv debate between Olaf Scholz and Friedrich Merz is unlikely to significantly have moved the needle ...

Friedrich Merz, chancellor candidate of Germany’s Christian Democrats, stumbled in his bid to end Social Democrat-Greens ...

Merz, leader of the Christian Democrats, had sought to restrict immigration rules with the support of the Alternative for ...