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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

Angela Merkel is coming to George ... along with several of her experiences as leader of Germany from 2005 through 2021. One moment Merkel detailed was when former President Bush raised eyebrows ...

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 ...