As Germans prepare to vote on Feb. 23, an almighty argument over whether mainstream parties should work with the ...

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

Sidelined by Angela Merkel in the early 2000s, Friedrich Merz left politics for 20 years until she announced her retirement in 2018.

The German political scene was already febrile because ... Enter – or rather, re-enter – former chancellor Angela Merkel. In the years following her retirement from politics (before the ...

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

Friedrich Merz broke a political taboo by aligning with the AfD on immigration, winning a symbolic vote but facing backlash and a major legislative defeat. German Christian Democratic Union (CDU ...

Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel issued another platitude, calling for Russia's victory in the Ukrainian conflict to be ...

Germany could face months of political uncertainty after the federal election on Feb. 23 as the winning party will almost ...

Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel has made a highly unusual intervention to criticise her one-time political rival Germany's former Chancellor Angela Merkel has criticised her own party ...

Merkel's statement was a rare intervention from the former German leader, who has kept a low profile since leaving office. 'Merz made a mistake': DW political editor DW political editor Michaela ...

BERLIN (Reuters) -Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel criticised Friedrich ... In a rare intervention into domestic politics, Merkel accused Merz of going back on a vow he made in November ...