Average Germans understand their nation is in crisis — and are exasperated that it took an American leader like JD Vance to ...

Friedrich Merz, the 69-year-old veteran German politician with a hardline stance on migration and an expensive aviation hobby ...

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

After the vote, Merkel accused Merz of breaking a pledge he made following the collapse of Germany's coalition government not to work with the AfD to pass legislation. Merkel, who once led the CDU ...

Merkel, then Germany's opposition leader, brought him back to Germany as her surprise choice for the presidency four years later, securing his election by a parliamentary assembly. In a letter of ...

Angela Merkel has praised Horst Koehler for his ... Horst Koehler was the head of the IMF before becoming Germany’s president in 2004 Credit: Getty Images North America But in May the following ...

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

Tens of thousands of people joined a demonstration against cooperation with the far right in Berlin on Sunday, after US ...

Merkel, then Germany’s opposition leader ... In a letter of condolence to Köhler’s wife, Eva Louise, President Steinmeier wrote Saturday that “many people in our country will mourn with ...

Horst Koehler, former German president from 2004 to 2010 and a respected global policymaker with a particular interest in Africa, died on Saturday after a short illness at the age of 81, the federal ...