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

The frontrunner in the race to run Germany is Friedrich Merz, whose Christian Democrats (CDU) are up to 10 points ahead in ...

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

German national elections approaching with migration at the forefront, leading parties CDU and AfD call for stricter ...

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

An ultimately failed tightening of German asylum policy with the help of the votes of the right-wing populist Alternative for ...

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

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

Former German leader reiterates swipe at chancellor candidate from her own Christian Democratic Union ahead of Feb. 23 ...

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

What the latest vote in the Bundestag – on tightening immigration controls – portends for the federal elections on Feb. 23.

In trying to avoid the mistakes of the past, Germany’s liberal politicians are pushing their country right back toward them.