Bidding to be Germany’s next leader are the incumbent, the leader of the opposition, the vice chancellor, and a far-right ...

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

Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel is facing criticism from her ... to prove that she was and is right," he assessed. Former Prime Minister of Schleswig-Holstein, Peter Harry Carstensen ...

Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel recalls Vladimir Putin's ... Merkel says she tried to help then-Prime Minister David Cameron in the European Union as he faced pressure from British ...

Germany's defence minister on Friday rebuffed criticism by U.S. Vice President JD Vance of German and European political ...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s favoured successor and the head of her CDU party will become the country’s next defence minister, an official statement said Tuesday (16 July), after Ursula ...

Merkel’s consequential policies have had significant impacts on German Jewry — both on the ... which at times put her at odds with former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who opposed ...

Even before the first voters set foot in Hesse's polling stations, it is widely accepted that what happens in Hesse will have consequences in Berlin - for the German government and perhaps even ...

But behind the scenes, Merkel shone. Lothar de Maizière, former German prime minister and now a senior lawyer in Berlin, was particularly impressed by Merkel, telling me, “She had something ...

The German Democratic Republic ... The shy daughter of a Lutheran minister, Merkel slipped into politics as a divorced Protestant in a largely Catholic party, a woman in a frat house, an Ossi ...