Germany could face months of political uncertainty after the federal election on Feb. 23 as opposition chief Friedrich Merz, ...

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

Election posters at a street in Duesseldorf, Germany, show the top candidates ... Enter – or rather, re-enter – former chancellor, Angela Merkel. Over the years since she retired from politics ...

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

Germany's former chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday urged politicians to dial back tensions ahead of elections this month ...

Photo by Gregor Fischer / AFP) Germany's former chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday urged politicians to dial back tensions ahead of elections this month after her centre-right CDU party sparked ...

The election for the 630-seat Bundestag is taking place on Sunday, Feb. 23. It’s happening seven months early after a snap election was agreed.

Inciting hatred against migrants, rearmament, and cuts in social provisions stood at the centre of the recent prime-time ...

More than 200,000 protesters rallied in Munich, Germany, on Saturday against far ... benefiting from then-Chancellor Angela Merkel ’s decision two years earlier to allow large numbers of ...

More than 200,000 protesters have rallied in the southern German city of Munich against far-right extremism ahead of the country's general election ... Chancellor Angela Merkel’s decision ...