Germany heads to the polls on Sunday. Immigration and the economy topped the agenda during the campaign. The conservative ...

Germany's rival political leaders take their fight for votes right to the last minute before a pivotal election.

“Friedrich Merz is willing to make common cause with ... were on a preschool outing in the park in Aschaffenburg, a quaint town in the state of Bavaria, close to Frankfurt.

As Germany enters the final few weeks of its election campaign, the man poised to be the next chancellor has doubled down on ...

The incident in Aschaffenburg, occurring just weeks before ... Leader of the centre-right CDU party, Friedrich Merz, has already vowed to impose immediate border controls if he becomes chancellor, ...

Triggered after the breakdown of the coalition led by Social Democrat Chancellor Olaf Scholz, the campaign for the February ...

Merz, whose centre-right bloc currently tops the polls, is toughening his stance on migration ahead of federal elections next month.

Friedrich Merz, poised to lead Germany during its economic and diplomatic crises, represents a shift in German politics. With a strong conservative background and a comfortable lead, his potential ...

Munich (Germany) (AFP) – Germany's conservative election frontrunner Friedrich Merz pledged a stronger role for Berlin in the EU and muscular support for Ukraine as he outlined his foreign ...

Those comments came after a knife attack in Aschaffenburg by a rejected asylum-seeker left ... "Especially after yesterday and what we heard from Friedrich Merz we have to stand together to fight the ...

Friedrich Merz, the 69-year-old veteran German politician with a hardline stance on migration and a love of aviation, is the favorite to become the country’s next chancellor in the federal ...