Who Is Friedrich Merz, Germany’s Likely New Chancellor?
After an election dominated by immigration and economic issues, Germany’s likely new chancellor is Friedrich Merz, the leader of the conservative Christian Democrats. His party finished first with just under 29 percent of the vote and will need to form a coalition government.
Germany is at a crossroads and now for Friedrich Merz the hard work begins, writes Berlin correspondent Jessica Parker.
The 69-year-old faces lengthy coalition negotiations after the far-right AfD surged to a historic second place in a fractured ...
The Christian Democrat, whose party won the parliamentary elections, quickly began negotiating with the Social Democrats to ...
Sunday’s federal elections in Germany were held at a time when Germany’s support for human rights both at home and on the ...
Omar Alkadamani, a Syrian-born, naturalised German citizen, used to support Germany's centre-left Social Democrats. Unsettled ...
Germany has long been considered to have relatively ambitious climate goals and it’s likely that combatting climate change ...
Germany’s political system is set up to exclude extremists. Yet the country is waking up to a new political reality that has ...
Germany's election delivered a fragmented result, with CDU/CSU winning 28.5% but needing SPD to form a ‘Grand Coalition.’ ...
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