World War II Germany’s 10th chancellor, the culmination of a yearslong political career that was once sidelined by his ...

Germany is set for a shift to the right after the conservative CDU/CSU bloc secured a clear victory in Sunday's elections, as ...

Germany's likely next chancellor Friedrich Merz will start trying to form a coalition government on Monday after his ...

Opposition leader Friedrich Merz claimed victory and Chancellor Olaf Scholz conceded defeat. Alternative for Germany, or AfD, ...

Exit polls suggest that Friedrich Merz, the candidate for the conservative Christian Democrats who has vowed to bring ...

The German federal polls have closed, and the exit polls appear to have handed the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) a victory ...

Ms Merkel moved to consolidate her grip on Germany’s centre-right after the Union narrowly lost a national election in 2002.

Friedrich Merz aims to lead Germany after CDU's 28.5% vote win, focusing on economic revival and immigration reforms.- Watch ...

The 69-year-old head of the centre-right Union bloc, which won the country's national election with 28.6 per cent of the ...

The centre-right CDU has emerged as the biggest party in the German election, making Merz the most likely to lead a ...

WWII chancellor, reflecting a long political journey shadowed by Angela Merkel. Despite never holding government office, Merz leads the center-right Union bloc and faces challenges like economic ...

Merz was born in 1955 into a conservative, Catholic family in the North Rhine-Westphalia town of Brilon, in central Germany, and joined the CDU’s youth wing while still in school. He entered ...