As the crisis-ridden nation prepares for Feb. 23 elections, the only point most Germans agree on is that things aren’t going ...

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 ...

A long-time CDU party rival of centrist ex-chancellor Angela Merkel, Merz has attacked her open-door migrant policy and drawn her ire for accepting support from the far-right AfD on the flashpoint ...

Mr Merz insists that Germany has no choice but to change. “The business model of this country is gone,” he states bluntly. His response begins with a war on red tape. “We have to do serious ...

Dogged by protesters, but apparently safe from damage in the polls, Friedrich Merz is putting ... product of a European Union regulation. For Mr. Merz, they were a timely and tidy example of ...

IT IS A calm and confident Friedrich Merz who greets The Economist ... if the AfD is to be kept out of power. Mr Merz is tall, thin and a plainer speaker than any German chancellor since at ...

but with the far-right snapping at their heels, centrists may only have one more chance to shake Germany out of its malaise. The question is: Has Merz got what it takes?