Friedrich Merz’s high-stakes gamble to enlist ... election campaign and drawn condemnation from former chancellor Angela Merkel. The leader of the Christian Democrats, who is the frontrunner ...

Friedrich Merz broke a political taboo by aligning ... burying the open borders policy of the last conservative Chancellor, Angela Merkel, which has become a deadly burden not only to her party ...

Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel criticized Friedrich Merz, her successor as leader of the country’s conservatives, on Thursday for pushing through a bill on tighter immigration control ...

Friedrich Merz, nemesis of former Chancellor Angela Merkel, is confident that he will win the upcoming election — despite his latest controversial moves siding with the far right on curbing ...

Angela Merkel — three years after stepping down as chancellor ... She slammed the decision by Friedrich Merz, frontrunner to be Germany’s next chancellor, to rely on far-right votes to pass an ...

Opposition leader Friedrich Merz has put demands for a more restrictive ... a first that drew a rare public rebuke from ex-Chancellor Angela Merkel, a former leader of Merz's party.

BERLIN (AP) — Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Thursday issued ... have cast doubt on whether conservative leader Friedrich Merz can still be trusted not to bring the far-right ...