Friedrich Merz broke a political taboo by aligning with the AfD on immigration, winning a symbolic vote but facing backlash ...

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

Composed in her trademark calm delivery, but infused with little to capture the reader’s curiosity, Angela Merkel’s ...

Angela Merkel, after all, led Europe’s largest and richest state ... But when she was two, her father—a Lutheran pastor—moved the family to East Germany, the German Democratic Republic, and settled in ...

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

Angela Merkel has praised Horst Koehler for his ... in Germany’s monetary unification in 1990 – when the former East Germany adopted the West German mark. He also helped prepare for the ...

The former German chancellor governed in turbulent times: the financial crisis, Russian aggression in Ukraine, Covid and beyond.

Concerns about Holocaust trivialization and nationalist policies underscore the growing anxiety over the influence of the far ...

As Angela Merkel, the longtime former chancellor of ... communist, Soviet-aligned East Germany, where Merkel grew up, and capitalist West Germany, which was formed out of the three western sectors ...

Angela Merkel was elected leader of Germany in 2005 ... Merkel was born in West Germany, raised in then-communist East ...