Germany's Christian Democratic Union (CDU) has announced plans to push for stricter immigration laws, even if it requires the ...

Polling data in home town of Friedrich Merz, Germany’s frontrunner to be next chancellor, are worry for main parties ...

Friedrich Merz and his conservatives view Angela Merkel’s legacy as a liability in their battle with the far right.

Angela Merkel was elected leader of Germany in 2005, and she held that position until she retired in 2021. She was the first woman to be chancellor and led Germany longer than any ...

Given that the CDU is Germany’s natural party of government ... Newly appointed German chancellor Angela Merkel takes the oath of office in Berlin on Nov. 22, 2005. (Jockel Finck/AP) If this ...

Friedrich Merz, an erstwhile rival of former German Chancellor Angela Merkel, has been a beacon of hope for the conservative CDU party. He now wants to unseat Chancellor Olaf Scholz and take over ...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has given an emotional farewell speech to her ruling Christian Democrats (CDU), as she steps down as party leader. She was speaking at a special party conference to ...

Although the bigger vote-getter, Chancellor Angela Merkel’s coalition ... which had been held by the CDU/CSU since 2005. Merkel’s Bundestag colleague Christian von Stetten called the latter ...

Tucking into beer and pretzels, the frontrunner to become Germany's next chancellor, conservative millionaire Friedrich Merz, ...

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