Even if Merz stumbles across the finish line and secures a coalition government, the death knell for Christian democracy may ...

Merz is an old-school German conservative. He’s close to the business elite of the former West and he’s built his career around opposition to public borrowing and immigration, positions that ...

positions the old-school conservative as "the CDU's answer" to win back voters drifting to the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), now polling at around 20 percent. - Merkel rival - Merz was ...

All of this, wrote news weekly Die Zeit, positions the old-school conservative as "the CDU's answer" to win back voters drifting to the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), now polling at around ...