These Are the Candidates to Be the Next Chancellor of Germany
Bidding to be Germany’s next leader are the incumbent, the leader of the opposition, the vice chancellor, and a far-right ...
Who is Friedrich Merz, Merkel’s rival and German election frontrunner?
Friedrich Merz, the 69-year-old veteran German politician with a hardline stance on migration and an expensive aviation hobby ...
Angela Merkel Is Retired. But She’s Still on the Ballot.
If anything unites the parties in Germany’s election campaign, it is running away from the former chancellor, whose legacy ...
Who's who in German elections and why this vote is important
The frontrunner in the race to run Germany is Friedrich Merz, whose Christian Democrats (CDU) are up to 10 points ahead in ...
"Time will tell": the Germans have radically changed their attitude towards Merkel
The opinion of German citizens about ex-Chancellor Angela Merkel has deteriorated markedly since the end of her reign, ...
She has never been very smart: Merkel gave out another banality — Pushkov
Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel issued another platitude, calling for Russia's victory in the Ukrainian conflict to be ...
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Could Angela Merkel’s return to public life swing the German election?
The German political scene was already febrile ... Enter – or rather, re-enter – former chancellor Angela Merkel. In the years following her retirement from politics (before the 2021 election ...
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Merkel criticizes leader of her own party for cooperating with German far right
Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel criticized Friedrich Merz, her successor as leader of the country’s conservatives, on Thursday for pushing through a bill on tighter immigration control ...
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Former German chancellor Merkel criticizes party over migration vote
Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel speaks during the New Year's reception of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) North Rhine-Westphalia. Merkel has criticized the CDU for passing a motion in ...
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Merkel criticizes German front-runner Merz over migration vote with far-right support
FILE -Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel delivers a speech during a reception of the North Rhine-Westphalian Christian Democratic Union, CDU, in Duesseldorf, Germany, Jan. 18, 2025, ahead of ...
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Merkel doubles down on criticism of Merz
Germany's former chancellor Angela Merkel has doubled down on her criticism of Christian Democratic Union, or CDU, leader ...
Who is Friedrich Merz - the trained pilot and Angela Merkel's long-time rival on course to become German chancellor?
Sidelined by Angela Merkel in the early 2000s, Friedrich Merz left politics for 20 years until she announced her retirement in 2018.