The contenders in Germany’s election are making their final appeals to voters. The opposition leader and front-runner vowed ...

Friedrich Merz, a man who has never held a government role, is preparing to take the reins in Germany just as the country ...

The far-right AfD likely will score its best ever result as Europe's ailing economic powerhouse lurches rightwards. The ...

Come Sunday (February 23), will the voting gods smile on Friedrich Merz? The leader of the Christian Democratic Union is the ...

- Election posters showing German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, right, and CDU top candidate for chancellor Friedrich Merz in ...

An economic slump, an immigration crisis and the lifting of a security blanket provided for decades by the U.S. are issues on ...

Conservative frontrunner Friedrich Merz assured supporters that his leadership would reinforce Germany’s role in Europe and relegate the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) to the political ...

Merz, 69, promises fundamental policy shifts, including stricter migration controls and market-friendly reforms to revive ...

With less than two days until voters go the polls, conservative leader Friedrich Merz, the favourite to be Germany's next ...

His explosive bid to tighten migration rules with the support of far-right votes in parliament reveals a man willing to ...

Olaf Scholz, 66, from the SPD is the current chancellor ... based on polling. Friedrich Merz, 69, whose opposition bloc has been ahead in the polls, is an experienced politician and a familiar ...

Watch live as German voters go to the polls to elect a new parliament that will determine how the country is run for the next ...