It was a defining image of the Merkel years: the German chancellor leaning across a table at the G7 summit in 2018, looming ...

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

Angela Merkel served as chancellor of Germany for four consecutive four-year terms, from 2005 to 2021. Only Helmut Kohl had a longer stint at the helm of a democratic Deutschland—and he was in ...

Ahead of Germany's February election, opposition leader Friedrich Merz advocates stringent border controls and faster ...

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

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

Opposition leader Friedrich Merz, leading in the race to become Germany's next chancellor, pledged on Monday to bring a law ...

Tucking into beer and pretzels, the frontrunner to become Germany's next chancellor ... he was elbowed out of the way by party rival Angela Merkel. He may never have held a government leadership ...

German voters head to the polls in a winter election next month, but likely will not have a new government until well into the spring.

Germany is headed for elections after its three-party "traffic ... Merz has vowed to steer the party back to its traditional roots, away from the more centrist course charted by Angela Merkel. The CDU ...

Donald Trump's return to the White House has darkened the mood in Germany a month before elections, as multiple crises shake ...