Mr Merz’s prosperous upbringing in the Sauerland, a well-to-do, rural Catholic region in Germany’s west, and his early career ...

Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel has criticized her center-right Christian Democrats (CDU) for using the support of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) to push a hard-line migration ...

The incoming chancellor’s coalition compromises leave a lot of space for the AfD.

Angela Merkel revisits one of the most emblematic declarations of her leadership: "We can manage". The former Chancellor of ...

The nominations from the CDU and CSU show that the shift to the right that is taking place in the US under Donald Trump is ...

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

Former German chancellor Angela Merkel wished Friedrich Merz, head of the incoming government in Berlin, "good fortune, and ...

Germany ’s center-left Social Democrats have approved a deal to join a new coalition government, paving the way for ...

Last January Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats (CDU) were ahead in the German opinion polls by fifteen points. She was stepping down after sixteen years as chancellor (prime minister), but she ...

Seen as a centrist-pragmatist, Mr Klingbeil turned February’s election defeat into a negotiating advantage. As the only ...

During coalition negotiations, politicians from Germany's future governing parties butted heads over the question of ...