Caspar David Friedrich: A Solitary Wanderer Finding His Way in the Fog
The first major U.S. exhibition of Germany’s great Romantic painter is a historic showcase. It’s also a blueprint for how to ...
Channel 4’s sanctimonious moralising is the last gasp of the old, pro-migration regime
I’ve just watched the first two instalments of Channel 4’s Go Back to Where You Came From, so you won’t have to. The publicly ...
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An SNP-Labour government may not be unthinkable after all
The leftist government of Gerhard Shroeder’s SPD with the Greens had lost the election to Angela Merkel’s CDU/CSU alliance ... ruled the roost for the first couple of terms, in an easy coalition which ...
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Meet the conservative German trio that could rule Europe
The EU’s likely next leadership trio believe they are keeping Europe from sliding far-right – it won’t be so easy. BERLIN ... “Unlike Angela Merkel and von der Leyen, who understood ...
The Scotsman27d
Interview: The advice Nicola Sturgeon got from Val McDermid on writing her memoir - from friendship to fiction
And I read Angela Merkel’s which was better than Boris Johnson ... “I never thought writing a book would be easy. It’s been harder than I thought. I’ve got a greater respect now for ...
Angela Merkel Is Retired. But She’s Still on the Ballot.
If anything unites the parties in Germany’s election campaign, it is running away from the former chancellor, whose legacy ...
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Angela Merkel’s Memoir Explains Modern Germany’s Dilemma
Angela Merkel, the photo seemed to indicate, was the adult in the room. Yet when Merkel’s autobiography, Freedom, landed in late 2024, the reputation of one of modern Europe’s longest-lasting ...
Daily Mail12d
Angela Merkel's fury as her own party teams up with 'far-right' AfD to tackle migration crisis SHE caused by flinging Germany's doors open
Germany's conservative opposition party is set to team up with the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) to tackle migration - prompting anger from former Chancellor Angela Merkel. CDU leader ...
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Merkel criticizes leader of her own party for cooperating with German far right
Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel criticized Friedrich Merz, her successor as leader of the country’s conservatives, on Thursday for pushing through a bill on tighter immigration control ...
Wall Street Journal23d
‘Freedom’ Review: Memoirs From Angela Merkel
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 ...
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Merkel ‘could not remain silent’ as she jabs Merz again over far-right AfD vote
BERLIN — Angela Merkel isn’t done. The former German chancellor doubled down on her criticism of Christian Democratic Union (CDU) leader Friedrich Merz, arguing that his party crossed a red line by ...
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Merkel criticizes German front-runner Merz over migration vote with far-right support
BERLIN (AP) — Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Thursday issued rare public criticism of her successor as the country’s center-right leader, the front-runner in Germany’s election ...