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 election campaigns usually have a sense of quiet inevitability about them. Accurate polls long in advance give a good idea of who will be chancellor, and with which coalition partners. So it ...

The leaders of the CDU/CSU bloc, Friedrich Merz and Markus Söder, told supporters in Nuremberg that their victory would keep the far-right AfD at bay. But protesters across Germany are angry at ...

It was "a question of fundamental importance." Friedrich Merz, the leader of the opposition CDU, used the backing of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) to see a non-binding resolution on ...

FLENSBURG, Germany — Friedrich Merz is Germany’s likely next chancellor, but how he will form a coalition government is looking increasingly uncertain. At a campaign event on Friday in the northern ...

BERLIN — Friedrich Merz, the conservative front-runner to become Germany’s next chancellor, is signaling a tougher stance on transatlantic relations. At the top of Merz’s agenda: concerns over Elon ...

Discover all the benefits of Euractiv +. BERLIN – Germany‘s election frontrunner Friedrich Merz received a boost in a hotly anticipated poll released on Thursday, which suggested that voters ...

Germany's chancellor hopeful Friedrich Merz has pledged to confront US President Donald Trump over Elon Musk's attempts to influence elections in European countries. In an interview with Berliner ...

At a joint appearance at the CSU's small party conference on Saturday, both CDU leader Friedrich Merz and CSU chairman Markus Söder emphasized that they would remain part of the "firewall ...

a Romantic like Friedrich could — in his immensely powerful “Monk by the Sea” of 1808-10 — dress a universal unknown in a cleric’s robe. This second-most-famous painting of his places a ...

You know the work of Caspar David Friedrich even if you don’t think you do. His classical landscapes, brooded over by solitary individuals or small groups, have adorned metal albums, book covers ...