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

These days the only people who arrive on time want something from you. Punctuality is for lapdogs, underdogs, sycophants, ...

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

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

Germany's conservative opposition party is set to team up with the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) to tackle migration - prompting anger from former Chancellor Angela Merkel. CDU leader ...

It would be a remarkable comeback for a man pushed aside by Angela Merkel in the early 2000s and ... ruling parties are almost always propped up as part of a coalition, which restricts their ...

BERLIN — She just couldn’t stay silent. Angela Merkel — three years after stepping down as chancellor — lit a fire under Germany’s election campaign by choosing now to finally speak up. And it was to ...

Merkel, a more centrist politician than Merz and his long-time rival within the CDU, criticised the move as "wrong" in a rare intervention in day-to-day politics. Merkel, chancellor from 2005 to ...

Former German Chancellor Angela ... in the run-up to the country's election on 23 February. Merz says Germany has had a "misguided asylum and immigration policy" for a decade since Merkel, his ...

BERLIN ― Friedrich Merz, the candidate leading the race to become Germany’s next chancellor, is all but running against his conservative predecessor: Angela Merkel. At a campaign rally in the northern ...