While polling suggests Germany's far-right AfD party will fare well, it's very unlikely to be part of the next government of ...

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 ...

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

Bubbles are mechanisms of wealth redistribution and destruction - with detrimental consequences for social and geopolitical ...

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 ...