The former chancellor has slammed her conservative CDU party for passing a migration motion with help of the far-right AfD. Merkel blamed party leader Friedrich Merz for going back on a pledge not to ...

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

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

In any other year, a German general election ... and could work in favour of the outgoing chancellor. Enter – or rather, re-enter – former chancellor Angela Merkel. In the years following ...

the German chancellor leaning across a table at the G7 summit in 2018, looming over Donald Trump as the rest of the world’s leaders looked on. Angela Merkel, the photo seemed to indicate ...

Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel criticized Friedrich Merz, her successor as leader of the country’s conservatives, on Thursday for pushing through a bill on tighter immigration control ...

Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel has issued rare public criticism of her successor as the country’s center-right leader, the front-runner in Germany’s election next month, for putting to ...

Former German chancellor Angela Merkel has criticized her centre-right Christian Democrats (CDU) for passing a motion in parliament calling for hard-line reforms to migration policy with the support ...

BERLIN ― Friedrich Merz, the candidate leading the race to become Germany’s next chancellor, is all but running against his conservative predecessor: Angela Merkel. At a campaign rally in the northern ...

Angela Merkel served as chancellor of Germany for four consecutive four ... Merkel (“Mother Merkel”), as the country’s first female chancellor came to be known. The nickname, conceived ...

BERLIN (Reuters) -Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel criticised Friedrich Merz, her successor as leader of the country's conservatives, on Thursday for pushing through a bill on tighter ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. FILE -Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel delivers a speech during a reception of the North Rhine ...