Germany's chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz cleared the final hurdle Wednesday to launching a new government next week ...

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s center-left Social Democrats have approved a deal to join a new coalition government, paving the way ...

The upcoming EPP congress puts Manfred Weber on a path to becoming the party’s most powerful leader ever – but he is aiming ...

Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel has recalled her impression of Donald Trump during his first term in the White House, saying the new American president-elect showed a “fascination with ...

Former German chancellor Angela Merkel has paid tribute to the late pope Francis as "a true friend of the people." "His voice ...

Angela Merkel wrote a 736-page memoir to secure her crumbling legacy. The effort is backfiring. Her new book, “Freedom”—published in late November in nearly 30 languages—is riling up even ...

Angela Merkel has revealed that she was “tormented” over the Brexit vote result and saw it as a “humiliation” for the EU. The former German chancellor wrote in her new autobiography ...

Angela Merkel argued that the billionaire’s financial entanglements made such an appointment extremely problematic. In her memoir, which is set to be released next week, the former head of state ...

Angela Merkel’s long-anticipated memoir, “Freedom,” already translated into 30 languages, could not be timed more perfectly. The current German government, under Chancellor Olaf Scholz ...

When Angela Merkel met Donald Trump at the White House in 2017, he avoided shaking her hand for photographers – even after she whispered to him that they should. "As soon as I said that ...

Andrea Thomas has been heading the Berlin bureau of Dow Jones Newswires since 2019. She writes about the German government, the energy transition and the economy.