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 ...

Former German leader reiterates swipe at chancellor candidate from her own Christian Democratic Union ahead of Feb. 23 ...

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 ...

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

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

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

EXCLUSIVE: Polling for the Daily Express shows that support for the right-wing Alternative for Deutschland party in Germany ...

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 ...

The hardline party has ‘an increasing influence on public opinion’, say analysts, as voters prioritise migration.

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