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

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 ...