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

Hospital manager Kathrin Leffler says she worries Germany's tense pre-election debate on immigration will make it harder to ...

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

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

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

BERLIN (AP) — Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Thursday issued rare ... He said last week that Germany has had a “misguided asylum and immigration policy” for a decade — since Merkel allowed ...

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 ...

As the two frontrunners in Germany’s general election prepare to go head to head in the first televised debate, the former chancellor’s intervention is a sign of the concern within the political ...

Angela Merkel — three years after stepping down as chancellor ... to rely on far-right votes to pass an anti-immigration motion in parliament. The deal broke a long-standing commitment to isolate the ...

Tunku Varadarajan lauds former German Chancellor Angela Merkel for her “stability and ... Jan. 21). Yet her immigration, defense and energy policies were far from that. Ms. Merkel opened Germany ...

Angela Merkel said her successor's tactical move ... for relying on far-right support on the flashpoint issue of immigration. Conservative CDU leader Friedrich Merz sparked outrage Wednesday ...