Germany’s likely next chancellor wants to reboot ties with France, do a free-trade deal with Donald Trump and get tougher on ...

Four candidates are bidding to be Germany’s next leader in Sunday’s election. The would-be chancellors are the incumbent, the ...

The German government is preparing for an upheaval in its parliament as citizens head to the ballot box following the collapse of the nation's ruling coalition.

If UniCredit SpA Chief Executive Officer Andrea Orcel thought victory for the business-friendly conservatives in next week’s ...

Friedrich Merz, the 69-year-old veteran German politician with a hardline stance on migration and a love of aviation, is the favorite to become the country’s next chancellor in the federal ...

but with the far-right snapping at their heels, centrists may only have one more chance to shake Germany out of its malaise. The question is: Has Merz got what it takes?

A long-time CDU party rival of centrist ex-chancellor Angela Merkel, Merz has attacked her open-door migrant policy and drawn her ire for accepting support from the far-right AfD on the flashpoint ...

At a closed-door BlackRock Inc. event in Davos last month attended by global banking heavyweights, Friedrich Merz, whose center-right CDU/CSU alliance has a big lead in the polls, made clear in ...