Germany's former chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday urged politicians to dial back tensions ahead of elections this month after her centre-right CDU party sparked uproar by accepting the far ...

Reminders of Germany’s Nazi past are everywhere in the city of Pforzheim. Small brass “stumble stones” dotted through the streets mark the homes of Jewish people who were deported and murdered.

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

BERLIN — Angela Merkel isn’t done ... the Bundestag with the backing of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD). Merkel was leader of the CDU from 2000 to 2018. Speaking to the German news weekly ...

She didn't think it was right "to remain silent in such a crucial situation," Merkel said on Wednesday at an event hosted by Die Zeit newspaper. It was "a question of fundamental importance." ...

The former German chancellor said it was not right to remain silent after her party, the conservative CDU, relied on votes ...

The five-star hotel and spa is set in an 18th-century country house hotel, with acres of land to explore in the idyllic ...

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