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

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

The recently published memoirs of former German Chancellor Angela Merkel are fuelling the present-day criticism of her legacy ...

Former German chancellor Angela Merkel's recent criticism of current conservative leader Friedrich Merz's migration policy ...

Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel has issued rare public criticism of her successor as the country’s center-right leader, the front-runner in Germany’s election next month, for putting to ...

As the two frontrunners in Germany’s general election prepare to go head to head in the first televised debate, the former chancellor’s intervention is a sign of the concern within the political ...

The carmaker’s cutbacks come as frustration over economic decline is fuelling a surge in support for the far right ...

The sweat was dripping off Friedrich Merz after the frontrunner to become Germany’s next chancellor saw his bid to outflank ...

The sweat was dripping off Friedrich Merz after the front-runner to become Germany’s next chancellor saw his bid to outflank an ascendant far right spectacularly backfire in the ...

The frontrunner to become chancellor has bold plans for economic reform, but a flirtation with the far right has hurt his ...