Viewers surveyed on Sunday thought that German Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) narrowly won the TV debate against his rival Friedrich Merz from the conservative CDU. In a survey conducted by the ...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Sunday accused his conservative rival Friedrich Merz of being ready to cooperate with the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), as the rivals faced off in a ...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Sunday accused election rival Friedrich Merz of having broken his word by accepting support from the far-right AfD to push an anti-immigration motion through ...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz from the left-leaning SPD and his main rival Friedrich Merz from the conservative CSU/CDU bloc have presented competing visions for the country's future. The center ...

BERLIN — With just two weeks until Germany heads to the polls, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and conservative frontrunner Friedrich Merz tore into each other over migration, the economy and how to ...

Germany’s Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Sunday clashed with opposition leader Friedrich Merz in a heated debate, accusing him of accepting favours from the far-right AfD party. Merz’s conservative ...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz outperformed his Conservative rival Friedrich Merz in a televised debate Sunday evening two weeks ahead of Feb. 23 parliamentary elections. During the 90-minute ...

Friedrich Merz ... union whose 2 million members include tens of thousands of Volkswagen workers. To circumvent the debt brake, Merz would need to surmount domestic political opposition along ...

SPD Chancellor Olaf Scholz and CDU leader Friedrich Merz fought a tough TV duel on Sunday evening - particularly over how to deal with the right-wing Alternative for Germany and migration.

A narrow majority of respondents see German Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) as the winner of the first TV duel against CDU leader Friedrich Merz on Sunday evening. The Greens were disappointed and ...

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 ...