If anything unites the parties in Germany’s election campaign, it is running away from the former chancellor, whose legacy ...

Friedrich Merz is a familiar face of his conservative party's old guard. Politically, he has never come across as ...

Angela Merkel, the former Chancellor of Germany, firmly defends her criticism of the CDU for cooperating with the AfD, ...

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

Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel has reignited fierce debate within the country’s political landscape, taking aim at her own center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party for what she ...

As Germans prepare to vote on Feb. 23, an almighty argument over whether mainstream parties should work with the ...

BERLIN (AP) — Germany's parliament is expected to vote Friday on an opposition bill calling for tougher rules on migration ...

Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel criticized Friedrich Merz, her successor as leader of the country’s conservatives, on ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. FILE -Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel delivers a speech ...

-Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel delivers a speech during a reception of the North Rhine-Westphalian Christian Democratic Union, CDU, in Duesseldorf, Germany, Jan. 18, 2025, ahead of the federa ...

Tesla CEO Elon Musk encouraged Germans to “move beyond” historical guilt in a speech to the right-wing Alternative fur Deutschland party. Musk’s public support for the AfD, which began last month, ...

In his speech, Musk said that the AfD was the ... The AfD has been growing in popularity since former Chancellor Angela Merkel decided to take in a large number of mostly Syrian refugees ...