She has been trade minister, foreign minister, deputy prime minister, and finance minister. During US president Donald ...

US intervention in Germany’s election was not a good idea, and it will be ill-judged as history comes to mark the changes of this decade ...

Having established a clear lead over both the centre-Left Social Democrats (SPD) and Greens, this motley movement of ...

Poland’s Prime Minister Ewa Kopacz, left, former minister of foreign affairs, Wladyslaw Bartoszewski, centre, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel ... of discarded shoes on display at the ...

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

Friedrich Merz, the conservative front runner, couldn't be more different from his predecessor, Angela Merkel.

It would be a remarkable comeback for a man pushed aside by Angela Merkel in the early 2000s and who failed to take charge of his party twice. He left politics altogether for two decades ...

Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel speaks during the New Year's reception of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) North Rhine-Westphalia. Merkel has criticized the CDU for passing a motion in ...

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 ...

Germany's opposition leader Friedrich Merz is the front-runner in the country's election campaign, with his center-right ...