Middle powers, like Germany and South Africa, need to step up their collaboration while striving for a global order based on ...

Friedrich Merz, almost assured to be Germany’s next chancellor, is ignoring conventional wisdom when it comes to relations ...

Was the report on the causes of the pandemic kept under lock and key? Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel denies it, and ...

Former German chancellor Angela Merkel on Monday called for European unity in the face of current political challenges, ...

Weidel led the Alternative for Germany, a male-dominated party accused of far-right extremism, from the fringes into the ...

Germany's chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz has promised to "massively expand border controls" once the country's next ...

Alas, poor Europe, I knew it well. A continent of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. Where be your gibes now? Your ...

If we flash back to the bygone days of the late 2000s, Merz’s future looked to be in the past: He was Angela Merkel's ...

Merz’s draft legislation, however, raised the ire of former Chancellor and CDU leader Angela Merkel, who intervened. Now retired from politics, Merkel is a scorched-earth, never-AfD hardliner ...

Filling Merkel’s shoes A German leader has, in living memory, succeeded in providing something approaching a singular European voice that the White House could deal with. Europe was long synonymous ...

He has toughened his rhetoric on immigration and his approach markedly contrasts with Angela Merkel’s liberal centrism, the politics of a dead era. The AfD’s surge is, Merz said after the election, ...

The AfD will likely be kept out of government by the number 1 ... Resentment against former Chancellor Angela Merkel’s policy of spending money on helping other European countries — when many of ...