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Already, Merz has pledged to increase defense spending and put Paris, Warsaw, and London at the lead of a new policy to shore ...

But Angela Merkel, then the party's overall leader ... associate fellow at Chatham House's Europe Programme. "Merkel was very centrist and by her standards, he was a real conservative - more ...

Angela Rayner today apologised to the victims' families in the Grenfell Tower tragedy - as she promised "justice must be done". The Deputy PM, who vowed tough new reforms today, told the Commons ...

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The top job has been late in coming for Merz, a lawyer by profession, who saw his ascent derailed by former Chancellor Angela Merkel in the ... Trump back in the White House and tensions rising ...

(AP Photo/Michael Sohn, File) Floor leader Friedrich Merz, left, and Angela Merkel, chairwoman of the Christian Democrats Union party (CDU), cheer after Merz’s speech to the delegates of the CDU party ...

It also marked yet another clear break from the CDU's more centrist stance under his former party rival Angela Merkel. Although Merz ultimately failed to change the law, he had launched a ...