The far-right AfD leads in a German poll for the first time ever. Can the incoming chancellor reverse the trend?

During her time as Chancellor of Germany, Angela Merkel has shaped the country into one of the most ... Merkel will remain in a caretaker role until the new government is officially in place, which ...

Last January Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats (CDU ... but she was still by far the most trusted politician in Germany. Indeed, she is universally known as “Mutti” (Mummy).

Europe’s most powerful leader is a refugee from a time and place where her power would have been unimaginable. The German Democratic Republic, where Angela Merkel grew up, was neither democratic ...

Last month, Angela Merkel (remember her?) was awarded Germany’s highest civilian honor, the Grand Cross of Merit first class, special issue. It has only been awarded to three people, all former ...

Germany's presumptive next leader Friedrich Merz has an "absolute will to power," former chancellor Angela Merkel said on ...

For years, Germany had been seen as the leading light of Europe — both politically and economically powerful, and with a figurehead in the form of Angela Merkel who was instantly recognizable on the ...

Hildegard Müller, one of Merkel’s former lieutenants and currently the head of Germany’s powerful auto lobby, is pushing for European and U.S. trade negotiators not to spark “a spiral of protectionism ...

Former German Chancellor Angela ... be allowed," Merkel said. The way she sees it, Putin is very concerned about recognition – "especially from America". This way of thinking stems from the Cold War; ...

Friedrich Merz is on course to become Germany's 10th post-World War II chancellor, the culmination of a long political career that was once sidelined by his party’s iconic leader, Angela Merkel ...