There have been several recent far-right terrorist attacks in Germany. Angela Merkel’s center-right party, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), has been rocked by accusations that several of its ...

Then Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU) federal chairman Friedrich Merz presents Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel with a bouquet of flowers at a special Berlin discussion to mark the ...

Officials from Merkel's Christian Democratic Union (CDU), the party she has led for nearly 18 years and steadily moved towards the political centre, are gathering from 0900 GMT in Berlin. The main aim ...

After years of turmoil within the party and the electorate over her disputed decision to keep the border open to more than one million asylum seekers, Merkel has said she will leave politics when her ...

BERLIN (AP) — Chancellor Angela Merkel's heir apparent shook up German politics Monday by declaring she would step down as the governing party's leader and not run for chancellor, fueling uncertainty ...

Germany’s Social Democrats will meet next week with Chancellor Angela Merkel’s alliance in a bid to break the country’s post-election political deadlock, President Frank-Walter Steinmeier announced ...

Berlin: German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Monday said she wanted to work towards regaining the lost trust of the electorate after her political allies lost their absolute majority in Bavaria’s ...

Friedrich Merz is set to become Germany's next chancellor. He has a checkered history in German politics — from challenging Angela Merkel to causing controversy by aligning with the far right.