A protégé of the late Wolfgang Schaeuble, finance minister and icon of German fiscal conservatism, Merz enjoyed a meteoric rise through his Christian Democrats, becoming the party's parliamentary ...

Alice Weidel, a gay woman with a Sri Lankan partner, leads Germany's far-right AfD, which opposes same-sex marriage and champions traditional values. Her leadership has bolstered the AfD's support.

Ms. Weidel grew up in a middle-class Catholic family in Harsewinkel, a town in North Rhine-Westphalia, in the country’s west ... Germany has become something of a sore subject for the leader ...

Germany’s conservative CDU has won the most votes, with party leader Friedrich Merz signalling he hopes to ... parliamentary term of 1957 to 1961 when the CDU/CSU won elections in West Germany.

members of the diplomatic corps and a group of Jewish leaders to pay tribute to Belsen’s Jewish dead. It was the first visit of any high West German official to the place since former President ...

Friedrich Merz, a man who has never held a government role, is preparing to take the reins in Germany just as the country faces its biggest economic and diplomatic crises in decades and Europe ...