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

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

Alternative for Germany appears to be heading for its strongest national election result yet this month and is fielding its ...

Maria Zakharova recalled that in 2022-2023, former Ukrainian President Pyotr Poroshenko and then ex-German Chancellor Angela Merkel and former French President Francois Hollande, too, acknowledged in ...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz from the left-leaning SPD and his main rival Friedrich Merz from the conservative CSU/CDU bloc ...

If anything unites the parties in Germany’s election campaign, it is running away from the former chancellor, whose legacy ...

Former German chancellor Angela Merkel's recent criticism of current conservative leader Friedrich Merz's migration policy ...

He held the ceremonial post of German president after a finance-focused career. Shortly into his second term, he became the ...

Köhler, a onetime head of the International Monetary Fund who became a popular German president before resigning abruptly in ...

hands over the credentials to re-elected German chancellor Angela Merkel during a ceremony at the president's residence Bellevue Castle in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2009. Credit ...