If anything unites the parties in Germany’s election campaign, it is running away from the former chancellor, whose legacy ...

Friedrich Merz, the 69-year-old veteran German politician with a hardline stance on migration and an expensive aviation hobby ...

After a two-year lead in the polls, Friedrich Merz is largely expected to become German chancellor after the ... comeback for a man pushed aside by Angela Merkel in the early 2000s and who failed ...

The federal elections in Germany are scheduled for February 23, having been preponed seven months due to the collapse of the governing coalition in December 2024. A total of 630 members will be ...

The opinion of German citizens about ex-Chancellor Angela Merkel has deteriorated markedly since the end of her reign, ...

But Germany is now being buffeted as well ... Enter – or rather, re-enter – former chancellor Angela Merkel. In the years following her retirement from politics (before the 2021 election ...

The frontrunner in the race to run Germany is Friedrich Merz, whose Christian Democrats (CDU) are up to 10 points ahead in ...

Germany's former chancellor Angela Merkel has doubled down on her criticism of Christian Democratic Union, or CDU, leader ...

The next leader of Europe's biggest economy will face a public deeply dissatisfied with living standards, housing and less ...

The former German chancellor said it was not right to remain silent after her party, the conservative CDU, relied on votes ...