In a survey out last year, women aged 14 to 29 reported significantly less support for Merz’s party than their male peers ...

Ursula von der Leyen is about to face the most serious challenge to her leadership since she became European Commission ...

Germany heads to the polls on Sunday for a high-stakes election that could see the conservative Christian Democratic ...

The deeper rot in German governance will require more fundamental reforms than any coalition is likely to deliver.

Germans will head to the polls on Sunday to choose their next chancellor. The man favored to clinch the election is Friedrich Merz of the Christian Democrats. He has been considered a potentially ...

Friedrich Merz leads Germany's election, signaling financial reforms, while Alice Weidel’s AfD pushes for radical crypto deregulation.

German voters head to the polls in a winter election on Sunday but may not have a new government until the spring.The confident frontrunner Friedrich Merz has said he's aiming for an Easter deadline ...

Germany's conservative leader Friedrich Merz said on Thursday the U.S. was at risk of sliding into longer-term authoritarian ...

Meanwhile, Germany’s far right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party is riding the wave of Trumpian politics, buoyed by vocal ...

Friedrich Merz, whose conservative party is ahead in polls before Sunday’s election, sees an “epochal rupture” with a United ...

In the wake of Trump’s victory—and his administration’s transformation from staunch ally to sneering adversary—Germany’s ...

Friedrich Merz is on the precipice of becoming Germany’s next chancellor. If successful, his conservatism and quest for new ...