Former German chancellor Angela Merkel on Monday called for European unity in the face of current political challenges, ...

"We must not think only in military terms, which is only a part of the issue, but also use diplomacy," Angela Merkel stressed ...

Already, Merz has pledged to increase defense spending and put Paris, Warsaw, and London at the lead of a new policy to shore ...

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He has toughened his rhetoric on immigration and his approach markedly contrasts with Angela Merkel’s liberal centrism, the politics of a dead era. The AfD’s surge is, Merz said after the election, ...

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Angela Merkel visited the Austrian capital on Monday evening. The former chancellor promoted her memoirs in Vienna and defended her Ukraine and refugee policies without self-criticism. She ...

Merkel enjoyed an improbable rise from East German chemistry researcher to her reunited country’s first female chancellor. For a time, she was the world’s most respected head of state, at the center of ...

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