Friedrich Merz, the 69-year-old veteran German politician with a hardline stance on migration and an expensive aviation hobby ...

Four candidates are bidding to be Germany 's next leader in Sunday's election. The would-be chancellors are the incumbent, ...

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

Germany is headed for elections later this month after its coalition collapse late last year. Here is a guide to the ...

Angela Merkel, the former Chancellor of Germany, firmly defends her criticism of the CDU for cooperating with the AfD, ...

Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel issued another platitude, calling for Russia's victory in the Ukrainian conflict to be ...

Germany hasn't seen significant economic growth in five years. It's a stunning turnaround for Europe's biggest economy, which ...

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

The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) is in second place in opinion polls, at around 22%, behind the CDU/CSU ...

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

Alternative for Germany appears to be heading for its strongest national election result yet this month and is fielding its ...

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