Despite making up less than one-fifth of the German population, eastern German voters are in particular focus ahead of the ...

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

Friedrich Merz broke a political taboo by aligning with the AfD on immigration, winning a symbolic vote but facing backlash ...

Former German chancellor Angela Merkel's recent criticism of current conservative leader Friedrich Merz's migration policy ...

Angela Merkel served as chancellor of Germany for ... of this unflashy pastor’s daughter who was raised in communist East Germany. Her cautious solidity and centrist pragmatism made, inevitably ...

He held the ceremonial post of German president after a finance-focused career. Shortly into his second term, he became the ...