Friedrich Merz

UPDATE Germany's top opposition leader Friedrich Merz is set to become the country's next leader after exit polls in Sunday's federal election showed ...

Friedrich Merz, leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and an election favourite, has waited a long time to get to this point - one step away from the German chancellorship. ...

BERLIN, 28 December. The current head of the German government, Olaf Scholz, is increasingly unlikely to be re-elected chancellor as the contest between him and leader ...