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

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

For a fifth time this year, the FDA has scolded a pharma company for misleading marketing, this time over a Merz ...

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

Merz believes that revisiting the policies that helped drive Germany’s postwar economic miracle will provide the path to ...

BERLIN—There is one thing Friedrich Merz’s friends and foes agree on: The man is impatient. So impatient that he occasionally ...

BERLIN: For chancellor-hopeful Friedrich Merz, the keys to unlocking a new era of prosperity lie in revisiting the policies ...

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

The leader of Germany's conservative Christian Democrats (CDU) Friedrich Merz said he could be open to reforming the debt ...

The collapse of Germany’s ’traffic light’ coalition government headed by Chancellor Olaf Scholz has thrown the focus on ...

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