Chancellor OlafScholz, whose center-left party trails ... His main election challenger, FriedrichMerz, whose center-right Union bloc leads polls, stepped up his party's vows to toughen ...
Election posters at a street in Duesseldorf, Germany, show the top candidates for chancellor, Robert Habeck of the Green Party, Friedrich Merz of the CDU and Olaf Scholz for the SPD, from left, prior ...