Friedrich Merz broke a political taboo by aligning with the AfD on immigration, winning a symbolic vote but facing backlash ...

Friedrich Merz, chancellor candidate of Germany’s Christian Democrats, stumbled in his bid to end Social Democrat-Greens ...

Extremely popular’ head of state and IMF boss was ‘virtually unknown’ before achieving ‘great things’ for Germany, says ...

Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel has reignited fierce debate within the country’s political landscape, taking aim at her own center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party for what she ...

Germany's former president Horst Koehler, who also once headed the International Monetary Fund and was a strong backer of ...

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Ever since the end of World War II, Germany's mainstream political parties have vowed to not work with extremist right-wing ...

Wild verbal battles in the Bundestag, loud demonstrations on the streets, talk of betrayal and of taboos being broken: it has been an extraordinary few days in German politics. On Friday, parliament ...

Friedrich Merz and his Christian Democrats broke a political taboo by working with the hard-right Alternative for Germany to ...

The breaking of a taboo among mainstream German parties on cooperation with the far right looks set to complicate efforts to ...

Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel declared Christian Democratic Union (CDU) head Friedrich Merz, her successor as party ...