Germany's conservative chancellor candidate Friedrich Merz explicitly distanced himself and his party from the far-right AfD, after sparking outrage over his cooperation with the AfD last week.

The centre-right CDU has been accused of breaking 'taboo' by putting forward a motion to the Bundestag for a stricter ...

Chancellor candidate Friedrich Merz and his conservatives slump in poll after far-right backing for migration vote.

Friedrich Merz, nemesis of former Chancellor Angela Merkel, is confident that he will win the upcoming election — despite his ...

Merz, leader of the Christian Democrats, had sought to restrict immigration rules with the support of the Alternative for ...

Conservative leader’s gambit to weaken the postwar ‘firewall’ may be a boon for the AfD ahead of a national election.

The sweat was dripping off Friedrich Merz after the frontrunner to become Germany’s next chancellor saw his bid to outflank ...

Merz, whose centre-right bloc currently tops the polls, is toughening his stance on migration ahead of federal elections next ...

A pho­to­graph accom­pa­ny­ing an art­icle on Janu­ary 31 showed mem­bers of Ger­many’s CDU party applaud­ing Friedrich Merz, not mem­bers of the AfD as wrongly stated in the cap­tion.

Christian Democrat leader tells Anadolu that European allies must strengthen cooperation with Türkiye on shared foreign ...

The bill’s defeat — after Merz secured the passage of a similar motion on Wednesday — suggests that some of his own ...

Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel has issued rare public criticism of her successor as the country’s center-right leader ...