Demonstrators descended on Berlin Sunday to protest the norm-shattering overtures by Germany's conservatives towards the far ...

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The former German chancellor said it was not right to remain silent after her party, the conservative CDU, relied on votes ...

Germany's former chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday urged politicians to dial back tensions ahead of elections this month ...

The hardline party has ‘an increasing influence on public opinion’, say analysts, as voters prioritise migration.

When Angela Merkel rose to lead the CDU parliamentary group in 2002 and entered the chancellery in 2005, the much more conservative-minded Merz withdrew and stayed away from politics for years.

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