Election front-runner Friedrich Merz wants stricter migration policies following a deadly stabbing in Aschaffenburg. Some in Germany are surprised at how willing he seems to be to cooperate with the ...

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

Frontrunner in bid to become chancellor criticised for relying on AfD to pass parliamentary motion on migration laws ...

As Germany enters the final few weeks of its election campaign, the man poised to be the next chancellor has doubled down on ...

The incident in Aschaffenburg, occurring just weeks before ... Leader of the centre-right CDU party, Friedrich Merz, has already vowed to impose immediate border controls if he becomes chancellor, ...

This same incrementalism runs through much of what Mr Merz says. Even if talks between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin lead ...

BERLIN — Friedrich Merz, the likely next chancellor of Germany ... allegedly carried out by a 28-year-old Afghan asylum-seeker in the southern city of Aschaffenburg, as evidence of what he calls a ...

Far-Right party to exploit migration in German election after failed Afghan asylum seeker suspected of Munich car ramming ...

Merz's personal popularity is up four points in fresh polling released on Thursday – and his party gained too.

Chancellor Olaf Scholz has accused his main rival in Germany’s upcoming election of “constant about turns,” while Friedrich ...