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

Angela Merkel was elected leader of Germany in 2005 ... Her father, Horst Kasner, was a Lutheran pastor, and her mother was a teacher of English and Latin. Merkel’s paternal grandfather was ...

Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel criticized Friedrich Merz, her successor as leader of the country’s conservatives, on Thursday for pushing through a bill on tighter immigration control ...

Former German chancellor Angela Merkel on Thursday criticized her opposition centre-right Christian Democrats (CDU) for ...

Angela Merkel hired no fewer than eight English language translators to work on the German text of her new autobiography, Freedom, which is astonishing when one considers how little of substance ...

BERLIN — Germany’s former leader Angela Merkel has exposed a deep rift within the country’s conservative movement, slamming her party’s top brass over how it’s handling the rise of the far right. The ...

The former chancellor can’t stand the America First policies that clash with her fellow travelers in international ...

BERLIN — Angela Merkel isn’t done. The former German chancellor doubled down on her criticism of Christian Democratic Union (CDU) leader Friedrich Merz, arguing that his party crossed a red line by ...

Angela Merkel, the photo seemed to indicate, was the adult in the room. Yet when Merkel’s autobiography, Freedom, landed in late 2024, the reputation of one of modern Europe’s longest-lasting ...

Germany's conservative opposition party is set to team up with the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) to tackle migration - prompting anger from former Chancellor Angela Merkel. CDU leader ...

Angela Merkel served as chancellor of Germany for ... and the publisher deployed no fewer than eight translators to render it into English. “Freedom” is, for large stretches, a serious ...