Friedrich Merz, nemesis of former Chancellor Angela Merkel, is confident that he will win the upcoming election— despite his ...

Then German Chancellor Angela Merkel of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) speaks at a press conference at the CDU headquarters. Former German chancellor Angela Merkel on Thursday criticized her ...

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 ...

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 issued rare public criticism of her successor as the country’s ...

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

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 ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. FILE -Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel delivers a speech during a reception of the North Rhine ...

Angela Merkel, after all, led Europe’s largest and richest state for 16 years ... Merkel was born in 1954 in Hamburg, in what was then West Germany. But when she was two, her father—a Lutheran ...

Extremely popular’ head of state and IMF boss was ‘virtually unknown’ before achieving ‘great things’ for Germany, says ...

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 ...

Once little-known among his fellow Germans, Mr Kohler became a popular head of state, often positioning himself as an ...