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

The frontrunner in the race to run Germany is Friedrich Merz, whose Christian Democrats (CDU) are up to 10 points ahead in ...

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

German national elections approaching with migration at the forefront, leading parties CDU and AfD call for stricter ...

Germany's former chancellor Angela Merkel has doubled down on her criticism of Christian Democratic Union, or CDU, leader ...

An ultimately failed tightening of German asylum policy with the help of the votes of the right-wing populist Alternative for ...

Former German leader reiterates swipe at chancellor candidate from her own Christian Democratic Union ahead of Feb. 23 ...

What the latest vote in the Bundestag – on tightening immigration controls – portends for the federal elections on Feb. 23.

The opinion of German citizens about ex-Chancellor Angela Merkel has deteriorated markedly since the end of her reign, ...

Extremely popular’ head of state and IMF boss was ‘virtually unknown’ before achieving ‘great things’ for Germany, says ...

Britain can’t cope, that was the response of Nigel Farage to last week’s disclosure by the Office for National Statistics ...

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