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

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Friedrich Merz is a familiar face of his conservative party's old guard. Politically, he has never come across as ...

The couple have three children. For a few years ... that he lost out to Angela Merkel in a party power struggle. Merkel, the understated quantum chemist from the former communist east, and ...

Angela Merkel served as chancellor of Germany for ... Ms. Merkel has an unerring eye for the humdrum. As a “rustic child” in Brandenburg she “thought nothing of eating unwashed carrots ...

Germany's former Chancellor Angela Merkel sharply rebuked Christian Democratic ... last week that claimed two lives, including a child's. The attacker, a 28-year-old Afghan national, injured ...

He declared that Germany faced "giant challenges" and that "our future and the future of our children is at stake ... to re-elected German chancellor Angela Merkel during a ceremony at the ...

He occasionally refused to sign bills into law due to constitutional concerns and didn’t always make himself popular with the government of Chancellor Angela ... children is at stake.” Merkel ...

Angela Merkel (center) was considered Merz's (left ... any authority over their children, who he described as "little pashas." This attracted much controversy at the time, though now you don ...