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

Alternative for Germany appears to be heading for its strongest national election result yet this month and is fielding its ...

As Germans prepare to vote on Feb. 23, an almighty argument over whether mainstream parties should work with the ...

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

Germany could face months of political uncertainty after the federal election on Feb. 23 as the winning party will almost ...

German voters are heading to the polls on Sunday, February 23 to decide who will run their next government. ITV News explains ...

Election posters on a street in Dusseldorf, Germany, show the top candidates ... Enter – or rather, re-enter – former chancellor Angela Merkel. In the years following her retirement from ...

Friedrich Merz broke a political taboo by aligning with the AfD on immigration, winning a symbolic vote but facing backlash ...

The frontrunner in the race to run Germany is Friedrich Merz, whose Christian Democrats (CDU) are up to 10 points ahead in ...

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 uproar by accepting the far ...

Olaf Scholz, the German chancellor, accused Mr Merz of making an “unforgivable mistake” by relying on AfD votes to pass a ...