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

Given the current poll figures, this does not seem very realistic. In 2021, the SPD won the Bundestag election with 25.7% of the vote. In the current ARD Deutschlandtrend poll, it is down to 14%, ...

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

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 ...

Friedrich Merz broke a political taboo by aligning with the AfD on immigration, winning a symbolic vote but facing backlash ...

Over the past decade and beyond, the CDU has undergone a significant identity shift under former Chancellor Angela Merkel.

The opinion of German citizens about ex-Chancellor Angela Merkel has deteriorated markedly since the end of her reign, ...

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

When Angela Merkel rose to lead the CDU parliamentary group in 2002 and entered the chancellery in 2005, the much more conservative-minded Merz withdrew and stayed away from politics for years.

Germany's former chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday urged politicians to dial back tensions ahead of elections this month ...

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 ...