Already, Merz has pledged to increase defense spending and put Paris, Warsaw, and London at the lead of a new policy to shore ...

Watch the trailer for 'Merkel,' a documentary about Germany's historic chancellor, Angela Merkel, who ruled for 16 years.

Angela Rayner today apologised to the victims ... The parliamentary secretary to the Cabinet Office is announcing today that she will use new powers under the Procurement Act to investigate ...

The surging far-right is a symptom of a world slipping out of progressive control – and comprehension.

Even so, Merkel’s admirably self-effacing personality shines through, as when she touchingly describes her feelings of wonder on her first night as chancellor. Just a few years after she left office, ...

Scholz’s outgoing minority government will remain in office while Friedrich Merz ... A political career once sidelined by iconic Angela Merkel The top job has been late in coming for Friedrich Merz, a ...

Merz expressed concern over changing relations with Washington under the Trump administration, emphasizing the need for gradual independence from the U.S.

(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 ...

Former Mayer Brown counsel and Blackrock advisor Friedrich Merz is Germany’s presumptive new Chancellor after his Christian ...

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 ...

Revenge against his eternal rival, Angela Merkel, who repeatedly hindered his ... has never held an executive office, is indeed immense. He will enter the chancellery at a time when Germany ...