Friedrich Merz, the front-runner to become Germany’s next chancellor, relied on votes from the far-right AfD to push an ...

The former chancellor can’t stand the America First policies that clash with her fellow travelers in international ...

Angela Merkel was elected leader of Germany in 2005 ... Merkel was born in West Germany, raised in then-communist East Germany, and earned a Ph.D. in quantum chemistry before entering politics ...

Former German chancellor Angela Merkel on Thursday criticized her opposition centre-right Christian Democrats (CDU) for ...

Upon assuming the chancellorship of Germany in 2005, Merkel made history not only as the first female leader of the federal republic but also as the first Ossi, as those of East German origin are ...

Angela Merkel, after all, led Europe’s largest and richest state ... But when she was two, her father—a Lutheran pastor—moved the family to East Germany, the German Democratic Republic, and settled in ...

Angela Merkel, the photo seemed ... European politics were in disarray. Germany was in economic and political distress. Merkel may have walked the world stage with surety, but on the big global ...

On Thursday, former German chancellor Angela Merkel criticized Friedrich Merz, who succeeded her as leader of the ...

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 ...