Concerns about Holocaust trivialization and nationalist policies underscore the growing anxiety over the influence of the far ...

It was a defining image of the Merkel years: the German chancellor leaning across a table at the G7 summit in 2018, looming ...

Friedrich Merz and his conservatives view Angela Merkel’s legacy as a liability in their battle with the far right.

Photo/Agencies] The leader of Germany's main opposition party has caused upset by saying he will bring proposals for an ...

The former German chancellor governed in turbulent times: the financial crisis, Russian aggression in Ukraine, Covid and ...

Newly appointed German chancellor Angela Merkel takes the oath of ... And the poor Lebanese girl whose tears helped move Merkel to open Germany’s borders? Days later she told a German newspaper ...

Germany's main opposition leader vowed on Thursday to impose immediate border controls if he becomes chancellor, as expected, ...

Ahead of Germany's February election, opposition leader Friedrich Merz advocates stringent border controls and faster ...

German voters head to the polls in a winter election next month, but likely will not have a new government until well into the spring.

But this might change with Trump returning to office. As Angela Merkel, the longtime former chancellor of Germany, said in November 2024, the looming second Trump presidency “is a challenge to the ...

Angela Merkel is the Chancellor of Germany and has been since 2005. Merkel is the leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and entered politics after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.

Angela Merkel served as chancellor of Germany for four consecutive four-year terms, from 2005 to 2021. Only Helmut Kohl had a longer stint at the helm of a democratic Deutschland—and he was in ...