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

It was a defining image of the Merkel years: the German chancellor leaning across a table at the G7 summit in 2018, looming ...

The country’s perennial yearning for reassurance is still dominating discourse — but this time around, it’s likely to be in vain.

Germany's main opposition leader vowed on Thursday to impose immediate border controls if he becomes chancellor, as expected, ...

Donald Trump's return to the White House has darkened the mood in Germany a month before elections, as multiple crises shake ...

Ahead of Germany's February election, opposition leader Friedrich Merz advocates stringent border controls and faster ...

The former German chancellor governed in turbulent times: the financial crisis, Russian aggression in Ukraine, Covid and ...

German voters head to the polls in a winter election next month, but likely will not have a new government until well into the spring.

Germany is considered one of the United States’ closest allies in Western Europe, partnering on everything from economic ...

Newly appointed German chancellor Angela Merkel takes the oath of ... And the poor Lebanese girl whose tears helped move Merkel to open Germany’s borders? Days later she told a German newspaper ...

US billionaire Elon Musk, a close adviser to US President-elect Donald Trump, again voiced his full-throated endorsement of ...

Angela Merkel served as chancellor of Germany for four consecutive four-year terms, from 2005 to 2021. Only Helmut Kohl had a longer stint at the helm of a democratic Deutschland—and he was in ...