The frontrunner to become chancellor has bold plans for economic reform, but a flirtation with the far-right has hurt his ...

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

Friedrich Merz , chairman of the conservative Chistian Democratic Union (CDU), believes he is set to become Germany's next chancellor after the general election on February 23. At the final party conf ...

Horst Köhler, a onetime head of the International Monetary Fund who became a popular German president before stunning the country by resigning abruptly in a flap over comments about the country’s ...

Germany's former president Horst Koehler, who also once headed the International Monetary Fund and was a strong backer of ...

Germany's former president Horst Koehler, who also once headed the International Monetary Fund and was a strong backer of ...

When the CDU motions passed on Wednesday evening, by four votes, an eerie silence hung for a moment over the Bundestag chamber. Then AfD parliamentarians began applauding what they see as the first ...

In trying to avoid the mistakes of the past, Germany’s liberal politicians are pushing their country right back toward them. One of the most pointless cliches holds that “those who do not learn from ...

Just a week after apparently performing a Nazi Salute at the inauguration and less than a day before International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Elon Musk, ...

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

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