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

Like many of the “new right” parties in Europe, the AfD began as an anti-immigration party. Its support began to rise in ...

Sidelined by Angela Merkel in the early 2000s, Friedrich Merz left politics for 20 years until she announced her retirement in 2018.

Germany could face months of political uncertainty after the federal election on Feb. 23 as the winning party will almost ...

BERLIN (AP) — Alternative for Germany appears to be heading for its strongest national election result yet this month and is ...

Germany's former chancellor Angela Merkel has doubled down on her criticism of Christian Democratic Union, or CDU, leader ...

BERLIN — Angela Merkel isn’t done ... policy motion to pass in the Bundestag with the backing of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD). Merkel was leader of the CDU from 2000 to 2018. Speaking ...

stopping mass immigration to Germany and, in other words, burying the open borders policy of the last conservative Chancellor, Angela Merkel, which has become a deadly burden not only to her party ...

The former German chancellor said it was not right to remain silent after her party, the conservative CDU, relied on votes ...

Germany's former chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday urged politicians to dial back tensions ahead of elections this month ...