The popularity of most politicians follows a similar course. Some grow to be palatable enough to win an election and then fall increasingly out of favour before eventually being booted out.

Andrea Thomas has been heading the Berlin bureau of Dow Jones Newswires since 2019. She writes about the German government, the energy transition and the economy.

Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel has criticized her center-right Christian Democrats (CDU) for using the support of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) to push a hard-line migration ...

Bojan Pancevski is The Wall Street Journal’s chief European political correspondent, covering European and global affairs. He ...

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Angela Merkel has defended her 2015 selfie with ... to reform the debt brake is set to be a major issue in Germany ahead of elections in February. Mrs Merkel also provided some insight in the ...

Germany's presumptive next leader Friedrich Merz has an "absolute will to power," former chancellor Angela Merkel said ... for February's parliamentary elections, Merkel reportedly texted Merz ...

Angela Merkel’s long-anticipated memoir ... she faced as the first woman to lead Germany. She recalls thinking, after her first election, that being a woman in politics was certainly not ...