It was headed for 18 years, from 2000 until 2018, by Angela Merkel. In January ... Speaking to CNN earlier this month after the CDU's convention, Mr Merz said he would "control borders and ...

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 ...

CDU under political titan Angela Merkel helped establish Germany as a force in European politics, but the party's fortunes switched in 2017 after the rival center-left Social Democratic Party (SPD) ...

He has vowed to prioritize European unity and the continent’s security as it grapples with the new Trump administration and Russia’s war on Ukraine.

"Angela Merkel, the enigmatic first woman Chancellor ... An East German pastor's daughter, Merkel re-invented herself after the fall of the Berlin Wall, often outsmarting and outstaying her ...

Angela Merkel said there is nothing wrong with attempting to understand Vladimir Putin. In an interview with the Berliner Zeitung, the former German chancellor criticized the invasion of Ukraine and ...

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Friedrich Merz, who is on course to become post-World War II Germany's 10th chancellor after the country's election ... derailed by former Chancellor Angela Merkel in the early 2000s and even ...