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 ...

Friedrich Merz is a familiar face of his conservative party's old guard. Politically, he has never come across as ...

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 ...

Composed in her trademark calm delivery, but infused with little to capture the reader’s curiosity, Angela Merkel’s ...

Horst Köhler, a onetime head of the International Monetary Fund who became a popular German president before stunning the ...

The frontrunner to become chancellor has bold plans for economic reform, but a flirtation with the far right has hurt his ...

An 80-year firewall has been shattered as the centre-right offers to team up with the far-right AfD to pass tougher ...

Angela Merkel has praised Horst Koehler for his ... in Germany’s monetary unification in 1990 – when the former East Germany adopted the West German mark. He also helped prepare for the ...

Inciting hatred against migrants, rearmament, and cuts in social provisions stood at the centre of the recent prime-time ...

POLITICO has processed 35 years’ worth of election data to find out why this month’s vote is messier than ever ― and what will happen next.