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

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

Merkel issued rare public criticism of her successor for putting to parliament proposals for tough new migration rules that ...

Friedrich Merz, head of the centre-right CDU, relied on support from AfD to pass parliamentary motion on migration.

Yet her immigration, defense and energy policies were far from that. Ms. Merkel opened Germany’s borders to more than a million asylum-seekers, many of whom don’t share Western values.

The former chancellor has slammed her conservative CDU party for passing a migration motion with help of the far-right AfD.

Germany commemorates the victims of Hitler's Nazi regime. Eighty years on, Berlin seeks to strengthen and preserve the nation's memory culture amid attempts at Holocaust denial by the far right.

More than a million refugees and asylum seekers, many from Syria and Afghanistan, came to Germany under former CDU chancellor Angela Merkel, whom Merz has strongly criticised. More than a million ...

His comments to the hard-right Alternative for Germany party escalated efforts by the billionaire to influence the country’s election for chancellor next month. By Jim Tankersley and Christopher F.

and from 2005 to 2021 served as the chancellor of the economically powerful Germany. She was a stable and important voice in the European Union and on the world stage. Merkel reflects on her life ...