Former German chancellor Angela Merkel on Monday called for European unity in the face of current political challenges, ...

Negotiators from German election winner Friedrich Merz’s conservative bloc and the center-left Social Democrats have started exploratory talks on a possible coalition government ...

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Angela Rayner today apologised to the victims' families in the Grenfell Tower tragedy - as she promised "justice must be done". The Deputy PM, who vowed tough new reforms today, told the Commons ...

No longer tied with the liberal, “open door” policies of former Chancellor Angela Merkel, Merz has vowed to bring the party back to its more conservative roots as part of efforts to counter ...

Angela Merkel visited the Austrian capital on Monday evening. The former chancellor promoted her memoirs in Vienna and defended her Ukraine and refugee policies without self-criticism. She ...

Merkel enjoyed an improbable rise from East German chemistry researcher to her reunited country’s first female chancellor. For a time, she was the world’s most respected head of state, at the center of ...

However, Angela Merkel’s ascent sidelined him, leaving him in the political wilderness for years. After two failed attempts to lead the CDU, his persistence paid off in 2022, when he finally won ...

(AP Photo/Michael Sohn, File) Floor leader Friedrich Merz, left, and Angela Merkel, chairwoman of the Christian Democrats Union party (CDU), cheer after Merz’s speech to the delegates of the CDU party ...

It also marked yet another clear break from the CDU's more centrist stance under his former party rival Angela Merkel. Although Merz ultimately failed to change the law, he had launched a ...

But who is the old-school conservative who wants to rid his party, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), of former leader Angela Merkel’s centrist legacy? His long-time rival’s decision to ...

It would be a remarkable comeback for a man pushed aside by Angela Merkel in the early 2000s and who failed to take charge of his party twice. He left politics altogether for two decades ...