Angela Merkel was elected leader of Germany in 2005 ... Like most young people in East Germany at that time, Merkel joined ...

State secretary, International Monetary Fund head, President of Germany: Horst Köhler's career reads like something out of a novel. Africa was a big focus of his work. He has died at the age of 81.

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Mainstream German parties have sworn off working with the far-right Alternative for Germany, but its ongoing rise and ...

The same agency classified the now-defunct AfD youth wing as a “confirmed extremist ... “In my point of view Angela Merkel ruined basically our country. She enforced without asking the people ...

In her discussion with Musk, Weidel wasted no time criticising former Chancellor Angela Merkel, in particular ... extremist organisation and its youth wing, which the party has tried to jettison ...

The centre-Right CDU headed into opposition for the first time since Angela Merkel took power in 2005 ... before its leader Tom Van Greiken brought youth and a savvy, Trump-influenced social ...