Former German chancellor Angela Merkel on Monday called for European unity in the face of current political challenges, ...

Was the report on the causes of the pandemic kept under lock and key? Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel denies it, and ...

Was the report on the causes of the pandemic kept under lock and key? Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel denies it, and ...

Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz plans to free Germany from the fiscal straitjacket that former leader Angela Merkel had ...

Elon Musk says only the AfD can save Germany. Mr. Musk is right that Germany is facing an existential crisis. But the party ...

The parties have been in government together before — most recently under Chancellor Angela Merkel until 2021. So, they have a lot of common ground, but there are also major differences. Here's where ...

Paul Hockenos is a journalist and author based in Berlin. His most recent book is “Berlin Calling: A Story of Anarchy, Music, the Wall, and the Birth of the New Berlin.” ...

A "historically unique" state leader, as former CDU Chancellor Angela Merkel called him. Vogel not only served as a state premier for the longest time in German history, he was the only person to ...

But Angela Merkel, then the party's overall leader, blocked his path, and after the CDU lost the 2002 election, replaced him as parliamentary leader as well. "He embodied the more traditional ...

Mr Merz is Chairman of the CDU - Germany's center-right party. It was headed for 18 years, from 2000 until 2018, by Angela Merkel. Friedrich Merz's stance on migration In January, Ms Merkel ...

CDU leader Friedrich Merz and European Commission President ... Von der Leyen, 66, has reigned supreme in Brussels ever since former German Chancellor Angela Merkel, her political patron, helped to ...

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 ...