where his mentor was the late CDU powerbroker Wolfgang Schaeuble. After chancellor Helmut Kohl's long reign ended in a slush fund scandal, Merkel soon sidelined Merz to take over the party and ...

leader of the CDU/CSU alliance, will take office in a particularly unstable context. Germany's famed stability, on which Angela Merkel based a 16-year reign, is now a thing of the past.

where he mentored under the late CDU powerbroker Wolfgang Schäuble. After Chancellor Helmut Kohl's reign ended in a scandal, Angela Merkel quickly sidelined Merz, eventually taking over the party ...

where his mentor was the late CDU powerbroker Wolfgang Schaeuble. After chancellor Helmut Kohl's long reign ended in a slush fund scandal, Merkel soon sidelined Merz to take over the party and ...

A new deal with the Greens could allow for as much as €1 trillion in new spending for defense and infrastructure over the ...

where his mentor was the late CDU powerbroker Wolfgang Schaeuble. After chancellor Helmut Kohl’s long reign ended in a slush-fund scandal, Merkel soon sidelined Merz to take over the party and ...

where his mentor was the late CDU powerbroker Wolfgang Schaeuble. After chancellor Helmut Kohl's long reign ended in a slush fund scandal, Merkel soon sidelined Merz to take over the party and ...

Loading Voters are expected to oust Olaf Scholz, the unpopular Social Democrat chancellor who succeeded Angela Merkel after her long reign ... of the centre-right CDU recently voted together ...

Mr Merz launched his political comeback after Merkel stepped down as CDU leader in 2018 and announced ... missiles might be sent to Kyiv under his reign, something Scholz has strictly rejected.