In Germany, the favorite to be the next chancellor, Friedrich Merz, will also not have the most comfortable ... who spoke to POLITICO exclusively in Davos. Read the story. Diplomatic credentials?

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Friedrich Merz, CDU candidate for chancellor and CDU federal chairman speaks at the 37th federal party conference of the CDU ...

Friedrich Merz, the conservative frontrunner in the German election, vowed to hold course on his disputed plan to limit ...

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The German Bundestag passed Friedrich Merz's so-called five-point migration plan — which promised a dramatic tightening of the country's migration and asylum law — through parliament.

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The sweat was dripping off Friedrich Merz after the frontrunner to become Germany’s next chancellor saw his bid to outflank an ascendant far right spectacularly backfire in the Bundestag.

Simply sign up to the German politics myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Friedrich Merz’s high-stakes gamble to enlist the far right in pressuring the German government to tighten ...