The Sunday vote comes amid an economy in the doldrums, big questions over Europe's security posture, and a surging far-right.

Conservative frontrunner Friedrich Merz stepped up his attacks on rival Robert Habeck from the Greens as the campaign ahead of Germany’s federal elections enters the final stretch.

An economic slump, an immigration crisis and the lifting of a security blanket provided for decades by the U.S. are issues on the minds of German voters. The far-right AfD is polling in second place.

Friedrich Merz, a man who has never held a government role, is preparing to take the reins in Germany just as the country ...

The leading candidate, Friedrich Merz, a conservative who has adopted many of the AfD’s hard-line positions on immigration, ...

When Germans vote on February 23, conservative Friedrich Merz is the strong favourite to become the next chancellor after a ...

And yet it is anything but guaranteed how party chairman Friedrich Merz can govern a country in which the far-right Alternative for Germany comes second, polarization hits record levels, and ...

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