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

BERLIN (Reuters) - Friedrich Merz, a man who has never held a government role, is preparing to take the reins in Germany just ...

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

Germans are going to the polls on Sunday for national elections. Opinion polls suggest the outcome will be a new chancellor ...

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

For Germans heading to the polls for a snap election, climate is not quite as important a factor as it used to be.

Come Sunday (February 23), will the voting gods smile on Friedrich Merz? The leader of the Christian Democratic Union is the ...

The 69-year-old CDU leader Friedrich Merz is a major favourite for the German chancellorship after Sunday's snap ...

- Election posters showing German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, right, and CDU top candidate for chancellor Friedrich Merz in ...

Merz, 69, promises fundamental policy shifts, including stricter migration controls and market-friendly reforms to revive ...

An economic slump, an immigration crisis and the lifting of a security blanket provided for decades by the U.S. are issues on ...