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From Paris to Warsaw, Brussels and beyond, the impending arrival of a new man at the top of German politics is being met with giddy excitement.

The 69-year-old politician and lawyer made his mark within hours of his victory ... Under Chancellor Angela Merkel, the CDU led the country for 16 years, from 2005 to 2021. With Mr Merz, the ...

Sergey Ponomarev for The New York Times Its vote share appeared to fall short of its high mark of support ... He got rich working as a lawyer and a lobbyist. When Ms. Merkel was getting ready ...

Black: Christian Democratic Union (CDU) - Germany's main conservative party, led by former corporate lawyer Friedrich Merz ... the more centrist course charted by former chancellor Angela Merkel. He ...

Germany's main conservative party, led by former corporate lawyer Friedrich Merz ... centrist course charted by former chancellor Angela Merkel. He has vowed to strongly restrict irregular ...

Who is Germany’s election winner and how will he fare against AfD leader Alice Weidel? - Friedrich Merz has taken aim at the US and says Europe must stand up for itself ...

The 69-year-old took the helm of the center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) in 2022, two years after long-serving conservative leader and former Chancellor Angela Merkel’s departure from ...

Merz, on the other hand, was shunted aside and quit politics to work as a corporate lawyer. “And Merkel does not miss many chances to ... in a planned statement from G7 countries to mark the third ...

Merz echoed calls from NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte that the new target level should be agreed between NATO members in advance of NATO’s Amsterdam summit in late June, then signed off by ...