Angela Merkel Is Retired. But She’s Still on the Ballot.
If anything unites the parties in Germany’s election campaign, it is running away from the former chancellor, whose legacy ...
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Could Angela Merkel’s return to public life swing the German election?
For all its recent upsets, Germany remains the biggest ... Enter – or rather, re-enter – former chancellor Angela Merkel. In the years following her retirement from politics (before the ...
What to Know About German Far-Right Party AfD
Alternative for Germany appears to be heading for its strongest national election result yet this month and has become a ...
Why a political earthquake will hit Germany next week: A failing economy, creaking infrastructure and an asylum seeker's horrifying attack. ROBERT HARDMAN beholds the AfD's ...
Yet another asylum seeker has just launched a deranged attack out of nowhere on innocent members of the public.
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Germany's front-runner Merz: Risk-taker who flirted with far right
He is the man tipped to be Germany's next ... But it was back in the early noughties, when his ambitions were initially derailed, that he lost out to Angela Merkel in a party power struggle.
Who Is Friedrich Merz, and Can He Fix Germany?
The opposition leader is expected to be Germany’s next chancellor. No one knows if he has what it takes to steer his country ...
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East Germany is a far-right stronghold — and economic concerns helped make it happen
The far-right Alternative fuer Deutschland (AfD) is dominating polls in East Germany just weeks before ... severe economic problems in the 1990s and early 2000s, with high unemployment rates ...