Tunku Varadarajan lauds former German Chancellor Angela Merkel for her “stability and prudence” and “cautious solidity and centrist pragmatism” (“Memoirs From Mutti,” Bookshelf ...

BERLIN — Germany’s former leader Angela Merkel has exposed a deep rift within the country’s conservative movement, slamming her party’s top brass over how it’s handling the rise of the far right. The ...

Angela Merkel wrote a 736-page memoir to secure her crumbling legacy. The effort is backfiring. Her new book, “Freedom”—published in late November in nearly 30 languages—is riling up even ...

Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel has made a highly unusual intervention to criticise her one-time political rival Germany's former Chancellor Angela Merkel has criticised her own party ...

Germany's conservative opposition party is set to team up with the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) to tackle migration - prompting anger from former Chancellor Angela Merkel. CDU leader ...

Angela Merkel, who led Germany for 16 years until 2021, pictured at a press event for her new memoir in November. Michael Kappeler/Pool/Getty Images Berlin, Germany Reuters — ...

Angela Merkel has taken aim at the party she once led following the rising popularity and influence of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD). The former German Chancellor slammed the ...

23 election BERLIN, Jan 30 (Reuters) - Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel criticised Friedrich Merz, her successor as leader of the country's conservatives, on Thursday for pushing through a ...

Merkel blamed party leader Friedrich Merz for going back on a pledge not to work with the AfD. Merkel noted that party leader Friedrich Merz had said in November that no measures should be passed ...

BERLIN — She just couldn’t stay silent. Angela Merkel — three years after stepping down as chancellor — lit a fire under Germany’s election campaign by choosing now to finally speak up. And it was to ...

Newly appointed German chancellor Angela Merkel takes the oath of office in Berlin on Nov. 22, 2005. (Jockel Finck/AP) If this is an accurate recounting of her personal feelings at the time ...