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Conservative leader Friedrich Merz headed for Germany's top job after a career of ups and downs
Friedrich Merz is on course to become post-World War II Germany’s 10th chancellor, the culmination of a yearslong political ...
What we learned from the German election that will bring change to the EU's leading power
Germany faces its second change of leader in less than four years after the head of the center-right opposition won Sunday's ...
Germany’s far-right may be frozen out of power, but the AfD is now a powerful force
Germany’s political system is set up to exclude extremists. Yet the country is waking up to a new political reality that has ...
Morning Bid: Clouds Gather on Wall St as German Midcaps Surge
U.S. flags hang on the building of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), after U.S. President-elect Donald Trump won the ...
After Germany’s Right-Wing Gains in Elections, New Conservative Leader Vows to ‘Achieve Independence’ From U.S. Under Trump’s Rule
While the far right made historic gains in Germany’s pivotal federal elections on Sunday, the conservative Christian ...
German Vote Boosts Europe’s Centrists, as Merz Seeks ‘Independence From U.S.’
Analysts say Friedrich Merz will have one shot at fending off ascending populists and an increasingly hostile U.S.
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Germany's Scholz, Merz clash over far-right AfD in election debate
He charged that Merz's tactic of accepting votes from the Alternative for Germany late last month had meant "a breaking of his word and of a taboo". "And therefore one cannot be sure what the ...
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Germany's Scholz, Merz, clash over far-right AfD in election debate
In their first direct TV debate ahead of the February 23 vote, Scholz said Merz's tactic of accepting parliamentary votes from the Alternative for Germany had meant "a breaking of his word and of ...
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History won’t repeat itself in Germany. But it might rhyme.
Friedrich Merz, the Christian Democratic Union candidate for chancellor, speaks at a campaign event in Stromberg, Germany, on Friday. (Thomas Frey/DPA/AP) BERLIN — Angst (a German word ...