Friedrich Merz, believes the upcoming elections are as important as the country's first federal vote in 1949. Speaking at an ...

With opposition leader Friedrich Merz likely to be Germany's next chancellor, experts weigh in on whether his tough China ...

Friedrich Merz said a new push for a free trade deal with the US could "prevent a dangerous spiral of tariffs." The ...

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

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German Christian Democrat party boss Friedrich Merz campaigning in regional elections in Erfurt, Germany. August 21, 2024. (Steffen Prößdorf/Wikimedia Commons) BERLIN (CN) — Out of Germany's roiling ...

BERLIN — Friedrich Merz took another step toward becoming German chancellor on Monday — while launching some scathing attacks on the very people with whom he will likely have to govern. As the ...

German conservative leader Friedrich Merz, who is favoured to succeed Olaf Scholz as chancellor, would support a new attempt ...

The campaign is well underway, with polls showing Scholz’s party trailing the conservative opposition Union bloc led by ...

If polls are correct, Olaf Scholz’s successor could be the 69-year-old leader of the Christian Democratic Union. He is offering to get the German economic engine humming again. By Christopher F.

Merz also said that Germany needed to gradually reduce its corporation tax rates towards 25%, with current levels nearer 30%. He said this would tackle non-wage labor costs and make the country an ...