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

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 ...

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

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

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 parliament is expected to vote Friday on an opposition bill calling for tougher rules on migration that could ...

Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Thursday issued rare public criticism of her successor as the country’s ...