The Swiss-based ex-banker who leads Germany’s far right: Alice Weidel plays the long game
Party officials feel they can secure a blocking minority in the next Bundestag, the point when Weidel will become Germany’s ...
Who is Friedrich Merz - the trained pilot and Angela Merkel's long-time rival on course to become German chancellor?
Sidelined by Angela Merkel in the early 2000s, Friedrich Merz left politics for 20 years until she announced her retirement in 2018.