Former German chancellor Angela Merkel has congratulated conservative leader Friedrich Merz on his victory in Sunday's parliamentary election. A spokeswoman for Merkel told the Funke media group on ...

Longtime conservative Chancellor Angela Merkel has rarely appeared in public and even more rarely commented on politics since ...

The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) is hoping to win the country's next election, co-leader Alice Weidel said on Monday, one day after the party secured a historic second-place finish on the ...

EXCLUSIVE: As Germany is set to get a new chancellor, an acclaimed documentary examines the leadership and legacy of a ...

Former Chancellor Angela Merkel on Thursday urged Germany's established political parties not to allow themselves to be led ...

BERLIN — The center-left Social Democrats have won the biggest share of the vote in Germany's national election. They narrowly beat outgoing Chancellor Angela Merkel's center-right Union bloc in a ...

To tax or not to tax? Chancellor Angela Merkel’s opponents want to raise income tax rate for top earners to 49 from 42 percent, a change they say is needed to finance investment in education, ...

LONDON — A third wave of the coronavirus pandemic has heaped more political problems onto Chancellor Angela Merkel and her ruling CDU party as the country edges closer to federal elections later this ...

In accepting her party’s nomination for a fourth term in office, German chancellor Angela Merkel delivered a speech that took aim at conservative critics of her liberal asylum policies, yet also ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Chancellor Angela Merkel could suffer an embarrassing defeat in parliament on Thursday if members of her centre-right coalition break ranks and back an opposition bill requiring ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's Social Democrats (SPD) vote on Sunday on whether to start full-blown coalition negotiations with Angela Merkel's conservatives, in what is the chancellor's best bet of ...