The left-leaning chancellor also went on to point out that the decision to decommission the nuclear plants ultimately traced its roots back to his predecessor Angela Merkel of Merz's CDU.

Merz’s conservative CDU party received backing from the AfD to push through a motion to toughen immigration laws. In their first direct TV debate ahead of the February 23 vote, Scholz said Merz ...

Standing ovations with slow, rhythmic applause are the order of the day at each campaign appearance of CDU leader Friedrich Merz. The lanky, bespectacled lawyer will turn 70 in November.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz from the left-leaning SPD and his main rival Friedrich Merz from the conservative CSU/CDU bloc ...

accusing him of accepting favours from the far-right AfD party. Merz’s conservative CDU party received backing from the AfD to push through a motion to toughen immigration laws.

Viewers surveyed on Sunday thought that German Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) narrowly won the TV debate against his rival Friedrich Merz from the conservative CDU. In a survey conducted by the ...

Referring to an anti-immigration motion which the CDU pushed through parliament with the support of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) on January 29, Scholz accused Merz of getting into ...

The opposition leader is expected to be Germany’s next chancellor. No one knows if he has what it takes to steer his country ...

“I’m open to discuss that," says Mr Merz. “But it is not our first approach." For the fiscal hawks of the CDU/CSU, reforming the debt brake would be a big step. But elsewhere Mr Merz’s ...

It also marks yet another clear break from his Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party's more centrist stance under his former party rival Angela Merkel. Although Merz ultimately failed to change ...