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

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

Favorite to be next German chancellor loses bid to use AfD support to push through immigration law, after days of turmoil ...

Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel criticized Friedrich Merz, her successor as leader of the country’s conservatives, on ...

Germany's conservative election frontrunner Friedrich Merz defiantly vowed Friday to pass a bill to restrict immigration with ...

Germany's conservatives doubled down Friday on allowing the far-right AfD to back their pre-election push to restrict ...

The centre-right CDU party leader sparked fierce criticism on Wednesday for accepting the far right's support in pushing a first bill through parliament. #EuropeNews ...

The centre-right CDU party leader sparked fierce backlash on Wednesday for accepting the far right's support in pushing a ...

It was perhaps the most dramatic week for German politics in decades as the Bundestag on Friday held three nail-biting votes to tighten migration rules after yet another terrorist attack committed by ...

The country's favourite to become next chancellor, Friedrich Merz, proposed a motion asking ... and a 2-year-old boy in the Bavarian city of Aschaffenburg last week. The incident followed knife ...

Horrified by the Aschaffenburg attack on Jan 22, in which a rejected Afghan asylum seeker killed two people – including a toddler, opposition leader Friedrich Merz declared that enough was enough.