Lawmakers from the incoming chancellor’s CDU party signal an end to the “firewall” that saw mainstream politicians refuse to ...

Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel has criticized her center-right Christian Democrats (CDU) for using the support of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) to push a hard-line migration ...

World / Is the country’s latest grand coalition a shaky marriage of convenience—or “democracy’s last bullet”? Linda Mannheim ...

During coalition negotiations, politicians from Germany's future governing parties butted heads over the question of ...

Mehrfach wich Angela Merkel überraschend vom bisherigen Kurs der CDU ab, u. a. 2011 mit der Kehrtwende zur Atompolitik in Folge des Reaktorunfalls im japanischen Fukushima und im Jahr 2015 mit ...

The key positions in the future German government will be held by politicians who are generally favorable to Kyiv.

Germany's presumptive next leader Friedrich Merz has an "absolute will to power," former chancellor Angela Merkel said on Thursday. Merkel's comments came one day after her centre-right party, the ...

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In the two months since the election, Merz's CDU/CSU bloc has lost four points while the AfD has been rising in opinion polls: Both now stand at 24%. Compared with former Chancellor Angela Merkel ...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel says her coalition government will ... behind Mrs Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU) and the Greens, in the European elections. She had been criticized by the ...

Last January Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats (CDU) were ahead in the German opinion polls by fifteen points. She was stepping down after sixteen years as chancellor (prime minister), but she ...