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

Friedrich Merz, the 69-year-old veteran German politician with a hardline stance on migration and an expensive aviation hobby ...

The former chancellor has slammed her conservative CDU party for passing a migration motion with help of the far-right AfD. Merkel blamed party leader Friedrich Merz for going back on a pledge not to ...

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

Alice Weidel from Alternative for Germany (AfD) is a far-right and right-wing populist political party. She is the first ...

Alternative for Germany appears to be heading for its strongest national election result yet this month and is fielding its ...

A row over Germany's "debt brake" helped deal the death blow to Chancellor Olaf Scholz's three-party ruling coalition, paving ...

Friedrich Merz is a familiar face of his conservative party's old guard. Politically, he has never come across as ...

The AfD has drawn support as a spate of deadly attacks has inflamed the immigration debate. Read more at straitstimes.com.

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

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

Alternative for Germany appears to be heading for its strongest national election result yet this month and is fielding its first candidate to lead the country ...