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The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) is now Germany’s largest opposition group and even topped several opinion polls – ...
The co-chair of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, Alice Weidel, has again accused Chancellor Friedrich Merz of electoral fraud, without providing evidence. "They are continuing with ...
Meanwhile, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz is to meet with French President Emmanuel Macron in Berlin as their countries boost their partnership amid troubled trans- Atlantic ties. We will be ...
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz heads into the summer recess with limited public support, according to a YouGov survey ...
He patched together his coalition and won a second vote. In 2017, Mr. Merz had vowed in an interview with Bild magazine to “halve” the AfD vote. Instead, the AfD vote doubled, hitting 10 million in ...
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has criticized the behaviour of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) during President Frank-Walter Steinmeier's speech in the Bundestag on the 80th ...
Friedrich Merz won the vote to become the next German chancellor on Tuesday after a second ... AfD's presence in the opposition in parliament could make it difficult for the coalition government ...
BERLIN (AP) — Conservative leader Friedrich Merz was elected in a second ballot by lawmakers as post-World War II Germany's 10th chancellor on Tuesday. ... or AfD, party.
In Berlin, Friedrich Merz was elected Germany’s chancellor, but not without a surprising setback. For the first time in Germany’s modern history, he lost the parliament’s initial vote and ...
May 6, 2025 Updated Tue., May 6, 2025 at 8:54 p.m. Friedrich Merz, chancellor candidate of Germany’s Christian Democrats, arrives at a news conference the day after German parliamentary ...
Friedrich Merz, left, reacts after ... Should Merz become chancellor, the AfD would be the main opposition party in parliament just days after it was declared an “extremist” group by Germany ...