Born in 1955 in the west German town of Brilon, Merz studied law and was first elected to the Bundestag in 1994. After ...

Friedrich Merz said on Wednesday he could be open to reforming the debt brake, which limits the public deficit to 0.35% of ...

German opposition leader Friedrich Merz on Wednesday warned potential supporters of the far-right Alternative for Germany ...

For the second time in his life, Friedrich Merz is a step away from taking charge of Germany. Losing the fight to control the ...

Conservative chancellor candidate Friedrich Merz said he’s open to reform Germany’s strict borrowing limits as long as ...

German opposition leader Friedrich Merz, who’s dominating polls ahead of an expected snap election, said he would look to ink ...

The Schuldenbremse was enshrined in the German constitution in 2009 by then chancellor Angela Merkel — a CDU politician — in ...

Yet now a country known for its reverence for the “schwarze null” – the black zero, a phrase symbolising Germany’s balanced ...

A strand of Merz Pharmaceuticals’ star-studded promotion of the anti-wrinkle drug Xeomin has landed it a reprimand from the ...

German opposition leader Friedrich Merz said on Wednesday he was open to reforming the country's constitutional brake on ...

A win would give Friedrich Merz the daunting task of rebuilding a German economy that hasn’t grown since 2019—and establish ...

Why one trial participant's healthy birth after her CAR-T treatment for lupus is catching resesarchers' attention: ...