Merz, now 69, represents a sharp rightward turn from Merkel’s centrist legacy. His campaign motto is “A Germany we can be ...

Lawmakers in Germany's parliament Friday opened a debate on a package of harsh immigration measures brought by the ...

British pay growth stayed stubbornly strong in the three months to November but there were more signs of a softening jobs ...

Friedrich Merz and his conservatives view Angela Merkel’s legacy as a liability in their battle with the far right.

The sweat was dripping off Friedrich Merz after the front-runner to become Germany’s next chancellor saw his bid to outflank an ascendant far right spectacularly backfire in the ...

It was suspected that the Chinese merchant ship, which was registered with the nationality of another country, deliberately cut off the cable by dragging ... including then-chancellor Angela Merkel.

Tucking into beer and pretzels, the frontrunner to become Germany's next chancellor, conservative millionaire Friedrich Merz, ...

Friedrich Merz will rely on support from the AfD to secure a majority, although he claims not to be actively cooperating with them ...

As Angela Merkel, the longtime former chancellor ... a 96-mile partition that cut through Berlin. East German authorities built the wall in 1961 in order to prevent East Germans from fleeing ...

Mr. Trump will surely have just as much personal disdain for Mark Carney, a clean-cut, wealthy central banker ... contempt for former German chancellor Angela Merkel and British prime minister ...