Already, Merz has pledged to increase defense spending and put Paris, Warsaw, and London at the lead of a new policy to shore ...

CDU celebrations are muted because a 28.52pc vote share means a weaker negotiating position in coalition with the centre-Left ...

Paul Hockenos is a journalist and author based in Berlin. His most recent book is “Berlin Calling: A Story of Anarchy, Music, ...

Friedrich Merz heralds a new era for Germany, after the German elections revealed a majority of young voters are leaning ...

Video - Angela Merkel's rival, a corporate lawyer and millionaire, and a politician accused of cooperating with the far-right ...

But Angela Merkel, then the party's overall leader, blocked his path, and after the CDU lost the 2002 election, replaced him as parliamentary leader as well. "He embodied the more traditional ...

From Danijel Višević, General Partner, World Fund, Former communications adviser to chancellor Angela Merkel, Berlin, Germany ...

The surging far-right is a symptom of a world slipping out of progressive control – and comprehension.

And overwhelmingly it has been brought about by allowing millions of Muslims into the West who have no desire to fit in, but ...

Negotiators from German election winner Friedrich Merz's conservative bloc and the center-left Social Democrats have started ...

EXCLUSIVE: As Germany is set to get a new chancellor, an acclaimed documentary examines the leadership and legacy of a previous chancellor – Angela Merkel. The former head of the Christian Democratic ...

Angela Merkel visited the Austrian capital on Monday evening. The former chancellor promoted her memoirs in Vienna and defended her Ukraine and refugee policies without self-criticism. She ...