If anything unites the parties in Germany’s election campaign, it is running away from the former chancellor, whose legacy ...

As Germans prepare to vote on Feb. 23, an almighty argument over whether mainstream parties should work with the ...

The opinion of German citizens about ex-Chancellor Angela Merkel has deteriorated markedly since the end of her reign, ...

Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel's clear disapproval of the CDU's motion open to pro-Nazi AfD on immigration which ...

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 ...

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

Former chancellor’s intervention exposes deep rift within country’s conservatives over how to handle the far right’s rising ...

Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel criticized Friedrich Merz, her successor as leader of the country’s conservatives, on Thursday for pushing through a bill on tighter immigration control ...

Frontrunner in bid to become chancellor criticised for relying on AfD to pass parliamentary motion on migration laws ...

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 ...

Merkel, a longtime CDU party rival of Merz who ... not as tactical manoeuvres, but in good faith, with a moderate tone and on the basis of applicable European law,” she said in a statement.