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

Germany could face months of political uncertainty after the federal election on Feb. 23 as the winning party will almost certainly have to form a ...

Election posters on a street in Dusseldorf, Germany, show the top candidates ... Enter – or rather, re-enter – former chancellor Angela Merkel. In the years following her retirement from ...

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

Photo by Gregor Fischer / AFP) Germany's former chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday urged politicians to dial back tensions ahead of elections this month after her centre-right CDU party sparked ...

German voters decide on 23 February who will run their next government, with Friedrich Merz's conservative Christian ...

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

More than 200,000 protesters rallied in Munich, Germany, on Saturday against far ... benefiting from then-Chancellor Angela Merkel ’s decision two years earlier to allow large numbers of ...

More than 200,000 protesters have rallied in the southern German city of Munich against far-right extremism ahead of the country's general election ... Chancellor Angela Merkel’s decision ...

Germany: once so solid and predictable ... producing leaders from Konrad Adenauer in 1949 through Helmut Kohl to Angela Merkel, who stepped down in 2021. It’s now likely to return Friedrich Merz as ...

Over the past week, much of Germany’s attention has been focused on huge protests against Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party leader Friedrich Merz for his flirtation with the far right, and former ...