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 ...

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 ...

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

After the vote, Merkel accused Merz of breaking a pledge he made following the collapse of Germany's coalition government not to work with the AfD to pass legislation. Merkel, who once led the CDU ...

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