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

Alternative for Germany appears to be heading for its strongest national election result yet this month and is fielding its ...

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

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Angela Merkel, the former Chancellor of Germany, firmly defends her criticism of the CDU for cooperating with the AfD, ...

Germany's former chancellor Angela Merkel has doubled down on her criticism of Christian Democratic Union, or CDU, leader ...

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

He held the ceremonial post of German president after a finance-focused career. Shortly into his second term, he became the ...

(Martial Trezzini/Keystone via AP, File) German President Horst Koehler, right, hands over the credentials to re-elected ...

Ever since the end of World War II, Germany's mainstream political parties have vowed to not work with extremist right-wing ...

Germany's conservatives doubled down Friday on allowing the far-right AfD to back their pre-election push to restrict ...