Anyone who thinks so should take a second look at today's very different political and economic conditions, Edward Chancellor writes.

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of the outgoing chancellor, Olaf Scholz, which were looking at around 16%. Mr. Merz Germany’s 69-year-old opposition leader has been the front-runner in the election campaign, with his centre ...

Friedrich Merz, who is set to become the new German chancellor, has vowed to "create ... 328 seats in the 630-seat parliament. The 69-year-old, who put toughening Germany's immigration laws ...

The Christian Democratic Union (CDU) is poised to win the German election, with Friedrich Merz set to become the new chancellor. The ruling Social Democrats are seeing a decline, while the far ...

The victory puts conservative chief Friedrich Merz on track to become the country's next chancellor, succeeding outgoing leader Olaf Scholz. Merz said he is aware of the dimension of the tasks he ...

Four candidates were competing for the top chancellor job after the ruling coalition collapsed, triggering a snap election. Olaf Scholz of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) was fighting for re ...

The 69-year-old will be the oldest chancellor since Konrad Adenauer, the first chancellor of the new Federal Republic of Germany, who took office in 1949 at the age of 73. Scholz and Merz are both ...

While he comes from the same party as Merkel, the former chancellor, Merz — a pugnacious old-school politician — is in many ways her opposite. He rose through the ranks to lead the Christian ...

Friedrich Merz, Chairman and candidate for chancellor of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), speaks at the party's headquarters, the Konrad Adenauer House, after the forecast of the German ...

It puts Friedrich Merz, a pro-NATO economic liberal, in the seat to become the country's next chancellor ... is not waiting for us," the 69-year-old told supporters. Mr Merz is heading into ...