Concerns about Holocaust trivialization and nationalist policies underscore the growing anxiety over the influence of the far ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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.

German scientists are warning that the national energy transition has pushed Germany into an energy ... Despite some people’s concerns, the Angela Merkel-Joe Biden deal on Nord Stream II will ...

Germany is considered one of the United States’ closest allies in Western Europe, partnering on everything from economic trade to military defense. But this might change with Trump returning to office ...

Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel arrives during a reception of the North Rhine-Westphalian Christian Democratic Union, ...

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 ...