Lawmakers from the incoming chancellor’s CDU party signal an end to the “firewall” that saw mainstream politicians refuse to ...

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

The far-right AfD leads in a German poll for the first time ever. Can the incoming chancellor reverse the trend?

Angela Merkel was elected leader of Germany in 2005 ... In the next election, in 1990, Merkel stood for election for the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party in the constituency of Stralsund ...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel joined thousands who marched to ... and this was followed by speeches given by Christian, Jewish and Muslim religious leaders and a minute's silence.

Angela Merkel’s black limousine cruised to a stop here outside the Hotel Adlon, a storied building near the path of the wall that kept her locked in the East for the first 35 years of her life.

He has a checkered history in German politics — from challenging Angela Merkel to causing controversy by aligning with the far right. Friedrich Merz, chairman of the conservative Christian ...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel looks almost certain to clinch ... Merkel's conservative bloc, that comprises her Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its Bavarian ally Christian Social Union ...

Chancellor Angela Merkel praised higher German wage deals ... The comments, at a conference of her Christian Democrats (CDU) in Berlin, show that she is ready to heed calls for Germany to do ...

I first encountered Angela Merkel when I was the Eastern European ... The following year, when the conservative Christian Democrats triumphed in the first free elections in spring 1990, she ...