EXCLUSIVE: Polling for the Daily Express shows that support for the right-wing Alternative for Deutschland party in Germany ...

Sidelined by Angela Merkel in the early 2000s, Friedrich Merz left politics for 20 years until she announced her retirement in 2018.

Alternative for Germany appears to be heading for its strongest national election result yet this month and is fielding its ...

Maria Zakharova recalled that in 2022-2023, former Ukrainian President Pyotr Poroshenko and then ex-German Chancellor Angela Merkel and former French President Francois Hollande, too, acknowledged in ...

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

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

The former German chancellor said it was not right to remain silent after her party, the conservative CDU, relied on votes ...

In trying to avoid the mistakes of the past, Germany’s liberal politicians are pushing their country right back toward them.

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

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

Merz, now 69, represents a sharp rightward turn from Merkel’s centrist legacy. His campaign motto is “A Germany we can be ...