Concerns about Holocaust trivialization and nationalist policies underscore the growing anxiety over the influence of the far-right party, which recently won the endorsement of Elon Musk Strong relations with Israel and a commitment to commemorating the Holocaust have been central tenets in Germany’s identity since the end of the Nazi regime,

It was a defining image of the Merkel years: the German chancellor leaning across a table at the G7 summit in 2018, looming over Donald Trump as the rest of the world’s leaders looked on. Angela Merkel, the photo seemed to indicate, was the adult in the room.

Friedrich Merz and his conservatives view Angela Merkel’s legacy as a liability in their battle with the far right.

Photo/Agencies] The leader of Germany's main opposition party has caused upset by saying he will bring proposals for an instant change to the country's immigration laws before parliament this week, days after an Afghan asylum seeker was arrested following a fatal double stabbing in the southern city of Aschaffenburg.

The former German chancellor governed in turbulent times: the financial crisis, Russian aggression in Ukraine, Covid and beyond.

Ahead of Germany's February election, opposition leader Friedrich Merz advocates stringent border controls and faster deportations following a fatal knife attack by a rejected asylum-seeker. Tensions rise as Merz targets perceived failures in Germany's migration policy,

Germany's main opposition leader vowed on Thursday to impose immediate border controls if he becomes chancellor, as expected, after elections next month, a day after an Afghan asylum seeker was arrested for a deadly knife attack targeting children.

German voters head to the polls in a winter election next month, but likely will not have a new government until well into the spring.

Angela Merkel is the Chancellor of Germany and has been since 2005. Merkel is the leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and entered politics after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.

Angela Merkel served as chancellor of Germany for four consecutive four-year terms, from 2005 to 2021. Only Helmut Kohl had a longer stint at the helm of a democratic Deutschland—and he was in ...

Donald Trump's return to the White House has darkened the mood in Germany a month before elections, as multiple crises shake the foundations on which Europe's biggest economy built its

Polling data in home town of Friedrich Merz, Germany’s frontrunner to be next chancellor, are worry for main parties