If anything unites the parties in Germany’s election campaign, it is running away from the former chancellor, whose legacy ...

Its probable next leader talks about Ukraine, saving the economy and beating the AfD in an exclusive interview ...

Friedrich Merz eventually left politics in 2009, several years after rival Angela Merkel won the CDU party's leadership Merz glosses over this bitter episode in a brief autobiographical post on ...

Angela Merkel thwarted Friedrich Merz’s ambition to succeed her. Now they have buried the hatchetOpens in new window ] He succeeded on the third attempt, to ongoing despair of Merkelist CDU ...

BERLIN — Angela Merkel isn’t done. The former German chancellor doubled down on her criticism of Christian Democratic Union (CDU) leader Friedrich Merz, arguing that his party crossed a red line by ...

Germany's former chancellor Angela Merkel has doubled down on her criticism of Christian Democratic Union, or CDU, leader ...

The former German chancellor said it was not right to remain silent after her party, the conservative CDU, relied on votes ...

[Photo/Agencies] Germany's former chancellor Angela Merkel has doubled down on her criticism of Christian Democratic Union, or CDU, leader Friedrich Merz over his willingness to cooperate with the ...

There was an awkward moment at a political event in the German city of Hamburg when former chancellor Angela Merkel was ... CDU party's candidate, Friedrich Merz. Merkel was put off her stride ...

Friedrich Merz is a familiar face of his ... party's more centrist stance under his former party rival Angela Merkel. Although Merz ultimately failed to change the law, he had launched a lightning ...