If polls are correct, Olaf Scholz’s successor could be the 69-year-old leader of the Christian Democratic Union. He is ...

Opposition CDU and governing SPD offer starkly competing visions as they prepare to unveil election manifestos ...

Political instability in Germany and France, combined with the return of Donald Trump in 2025, threatens to undermine the ...

The conservative leader’s attacks signal the next government may be just as discordant as the one that recently fell.

Musk wrote on social media that only AfD, the country’s most prominent extreme-right party, “can save Germany.” ...

Germany’s likely next chancellor shares his party’s pro-EU and Atlanticist instincts, but also the country’s wider reluctance ...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and opposition leader Friedrich Merz are neck and neck in head-on personal ratings ahead of ...

Merz was born on November 11, 1955 and has been married for more than 40 years to Charlotte Merz, a judge. They have three adult children. Merz, who at 198 cm (6ft 6 in) stands out in a crowd, is ...

The Christian Democrat has long coveted Germany’s top job. With his party dominating polling heading into elections, Merz is likely to finally take the helm of a nation struggling with a sluggish ...

The leader of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, Alice Weidel, leads the ranking of candidates for the post ...

Olaf Scholz has lost a vote of confidence in his leadership and Germany now faces its first election of the truly post-Angela ...

Friedrich Merz is a longtime rival of Angela Merkel who has tried to move their party back to the right.