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

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

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

Donald Trump's return to the White House has darkened the mood in Germany a month before elections, as multiple crises shake ...

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

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

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.

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 ...

Former chancellor Angela Merkel was fond of pointing to the Swabian housewife who insisted on living within her means, as an example of sensible policymaking. Picture: Getty The German economy, for a ...

And his diagnosis of Germany's ills isn't far wrong: we are indeed in an "economic and cultural crisis", owing to the ...