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 ...

Having led his party, the Christian Democrats, to first place in Germany’s election last month, Mr. Merz swiftly assumed the ...

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

Watch the trailer for 'Merkel,' a documentary about Germany's historic chancellor, Angela Merkel, who ruled for 16 years.

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, ...

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 ...

(AP Photo/Michael Sohn, File) Floor leader Friedrich Merz, left, and Angela Merkel, chairwoman of the Christian Democrats Union party (CDU), cheer after Merz’s speech to the delegates of the CDU party ...