Friedrich Merz, whose conservative party is ahead in polls before Sunday’s election, sees an “epochal rupture” with a United ...

Friedrich Merz is on track to become Germany’s next chancellor, with his party, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), and its ...

Friedrich Merz, who is poised to become Germany’s chancellor in a CDU-led government, has extensive experience as a lawyer ...

Ronan Hunter’s castle is his home – for a few days a week, writes Phil Hill . The director and general manager is nearing the end of his second stint at Taunton’s Castle Hotel. He is from Ballycastle, ...

If a week is a long time in politics then eight years is an eternity. Just ask Donald Trump and Emmanuel Macron. Back in 2017 ...

Queen Camilla and King Charles had a stark difference of opinion when it came to her new title, a royal expert has claimed. According to The Times’s Tom Quinn, one staff member recounted a ...

(The Center Square) – After months of contention, debate and investigations, the Spokane Valley City Council agreed to sue Councilmember Al Merkel on Tuesday to force him to comply with state law.

Merkel, a more centrist politician than Merz and his long-time rival within the CDU, criticised the move as "wrong" in a rare intervention in day-to-day politics. Merkel, chancellor from 2005 to ...

When Angela Merkel rose to lead the CDU parliamentary group in 2002 and entered the chancellery in 2005, the much more conservative-minded Merz withdrew and stayed away from politics for years.

The deputy prime minister reportedly fought a behind-the-scenes battle to curb the Duke of York’s influence following his downfall over ties to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein. The Sunday ...

Angela Rayner called Prince Andrew a “nonce” and tried to block him from ever standing in for King Charles, according to a tell-all book on Labour’s rise to power. The deputy prime minister ...