Germany’s proposed reclassification of Morocco as a “safe country of origin” has ignited fierce political debate in Berlin, with critics accusing Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s government of bypassing ...

Jens Spahn, the powerful parliamentary leader of Merz's centre-right, faces a reckoning over Covid-era procurement calls that ...

When it comes to social and diversity politics, the CDU has wasted no time marking their political territory. And it's at the ...

By Thomas Escritt and Sarah Marsh BERLIN (Reuters) -Last weekend, Germany's far-right lawmakers vowed to dress smartly, ...

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The top job has been late in coming for Merz, a trained lawyer who saw his ascent derailed by former Chancellor Angela Merkel in the early 2000s and who even turned his back on active politics for ...

BERLIN — Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel criticized the migration policy of incumbent Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Wednesday as a threat to freedom of movement in the EU. “We have to focus on ...

Merkel and Trump have had a conflict-ridden relationship and in her memoir she said that for Trump, all countries were in competition with each other and that the success of one was the failure of the ...

The argument that Israeli security is Germany’s “reason of state” was reiterated by Merkel’s successor, Olaf Scholz, during ...

Friedrich Merz has been elected as 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.