The likely next government should have substantial financial leeway, thanks to credit-financed special funds. However, it ...

Merkel’s political career was shaped by these early years, by her ingrained belief in freedom, the word she chose as a title ...

But whatever political plans Merz had for himself and for Germany at the time, he had to change them with the appearance of Angela Merkel, a young politician from former East Germany who despite ...

“Angela Merkel was the exception that proves the ... Dale said a “defining moment” for Germany’s East was feeling taken advantage of during reunification. “When the government at the ...

"Germany will once more be governed reliably ... However, reunification in 1990 allowed Angela Merkel, the East German daughter of a protestant pastor, to enter politics and elbow both Schaeuble ...

The February 23 parliamentary poll in Germany produced several outcomes, the prominent being a highly fractured verdict.

Already, Merz has pledged to increase defense spending and put Paris, Warsaw, and London at the lead of a new policy to shore up Ukraine’s sovereignty and defend Europe from Russia with or without the ...

Germany, the pre-eminent European country for the past century, third in world GDP, the biggest economy in Europe and pivotal to the fortunes of the European Union, voted to elect a new parliament ...

The Christian Democrats won with 28.6% of the vote while the far-right Alternative for Germany came second with 20.8%.

Merz, a man who has never held a government role, is preparing to take the reins in Germany just as the country faces economic and diplomatic crises.

Germany has spoken: the party of Angela Merkel is back in power ... ago to open the country to almost a million asylum seekers fleeing unrest in the Middle East. Since then, that number has ballooned ...