If anything unites the parties in Germany’s election campaign, it is running away from the former chancellor, whose legacy ...

Sidelined by Angela Merkel in the early 2000s, Friedrich Merz left politics for 20 years until she announced her retirement in 2018.

Alternative for Germany appears to be heading for its strongest national election result yet this month and is fielding its ...

EXCLUSIVE: Polling for the Daily Express shows that support for the right-wing Alternative for Deutschland party in Germany ...

Friedrich Merz is a familiar face of his conservative party's old guard. Politically, he has never come across as ...

AfD has support across Germany and is represented in all but two of the 16 state legislatures, but the party is strongest in ...

The frontrunner in the race to run Germany is Friedrich Merz, whose Christian Democrats (CDU) are up to 10 points ahead in ...

Omar El Akkad sees a future in which western intelligentsias will whitewash their past complaisance, but Pankaj Mishra is in ...