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

Friedrich Merz, the 69-year-old veteran German politician with a hardline stance on migration and an expensive aviation hobby ...

Horst Köhler spent most of his early life as a refugee and became a highly popular president. He was also lauded for his post ...

Angela Merkel, the former Chancellor of Germany, firmly defends her criticism of the CDU for cooperating with the AfD, ...

Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel issued another platitude, calling for Russia's victory in the Ukrainian conflict to be ...

Here are five reasons for Germany's ongoing economic slump: Moscow's decision to cut off natural gas supplies to Germany in ...

This recent polling data will come as a surprise to many. Like many of the “new right” parties in Europe, the AfD began as an ...

Sidelined by Angela Merkel in the early 2000s, Friedrich Merz left politics for 20 years until she announced her retirement in 2018.

But who is the old-school conservative who wants to rid his party, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), of former leader Angela Merkel’s centrist legacy? His long-time rival’s decision to ...