German opposition leader Friedrich Merz, who hopes to become the next chancellor, is a millionaire ex-corporate lawyer who ...

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

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

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

Ten weeks away from elections and with a double-digit lead over his closest rival's party, conservative leader Friedrich Merz ...

Germany can cover future increases in military spending without creating a special funding instrument, but must do more to ...

Vladimir Putin says Russia attacked Ukraine with a new medium-range missile “in response to the use of American and British ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's chief of staff said in an interview broadcast late on Thursday that Kyiv was not ...

German opposition leader Friedrich Merz, who hopes to become the next chancellor, is a millionaire ex-corporate lawyer who ...

German opposition leader Friedrich Merz, who hopes to become ... to migrants to her insistence on maintaining dialogue with Russia. Merz is a pro-business economic liberal, who published a book ...