Olaf Scholz has lost a vote of confidence in his leadership and Germany now faces its first election of the truly post-Angela ...

BERLIN, (Reuters) – Angela Merkel sought advice from the pope on dealing with Donald Trump when he was first elected U.S. president, hoping to find ways of convincing a man she saw as having a ...

There’s a horror film (“The Mouse Trap”) on our worst list this year. No surprise there; a lot of contemporary horror is bottom of the barrel. Yet it strikes us that a worst movies of the year roster ...

Germany's embattled Chancellor Olaf Scholz will face parliament Monday to trigger the process towards February 23 elections, ...

Angela Merkel has sought to calm the nerves of European leaders over a second Donald Trump presidency claiming that he is not as ill-disposed to them as many believe. With Trump making his first ...

Trump said he would not direct his Justice Department to investigate members of Congress and Biden administration officials who led the investigations into his role in January 6, but continued to ...

In the end, there was very little to Merkel-worship. Just a vague sense that she was a nice person and — crucially — that conservatives disliked her. Puddle-deep and tribal: the cult of Merkel was ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. In the future, perhaps during one of her Baltic walks, Angela Merkel might reflect that calling her memoir ...

“I’ll never forget, when I took him out (of the ambassador role), the happiest person in the world was Angela Merkel,” Trump said of the former German chancellor. “When Ric Grenell was ...

For most of Angela Merkel’s 16 years as German ... and absolute power corrupts absolutely, it was Merkel. Now, though, just as Trump prepares to take his second oath of office and Putin keeps ...

For most of Angela Merkel’s 16 years as German chancellor ... leaders such as Russia’s Vladimir Putin or America’s Donald Trump. Unlike those strongmen, she was “the opposite of bombast ...