Concerns about Holocaust trivialization and nationalist policies underscore the growing anxiety over the influence of the far-right party, which recently won the endorsement of Elon Musk Strong relations with Israel and a commitment to commemorating the Holocaust have been central tenets in Germany’s identity since the end of the Nazi regime,

Friedrich Merz and his conservatives view Angela Merkel’s legacy as a liability in their battle with the far right.

It was a defining image of the Merkel years: the German chancellor leaning across a table at the G7 summit in 2018, looming over Donald Trump as the rest of the world’s leaders looked on. Angela Merkel, the photo seemed to indicate, was the adult in the room.

The former German chancellor governed in turbulent times: the financial crisis, Russian aggression in Ukraine, Covid and beyond.

Ahead of Germany's February election, opposition leader Friedrich Merz advocates stringent border controls and faster deportations following a fatal knife attack by a rejected asylum-seeker. Tensions rise as Merz targets perceived failures in Germany's migration policy,

German voters head to the polls in a winter election next month, but likely will not have a new government until well into the spring.

Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel, center, attends a reception of the North Rhine-Westphalian Christian Democratic Union, CDU, in Duesseldorf, Germany, Saturday, Jan. 18, 2025, ahead of the feder

German scientists are warning that the national energy transition has pushed Germany into an energy ... Despite some people’s concerns, the Angela Merkel-Joe Biden deal on Nord Stream II will ...

Angela Merkel is the Chancellor of Germany and has been since 2005. Merkel is the leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and entered politics after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.

Germany's main opposition leader vowed on Thursday to impose immediate border controls if he becomes chancellor, as expected, after elections next month, a day after an Afghan asylum seeker was arrested for a deadly knife attack targeting children.

In the home town of the man poised to become Germany’s next chancellor, there is a whiff of nervous excitement in the air. Posters of Friedrich Merz, the centre-right election frontrunner, are dotted all over Brilon’s market square,

Germany commemorates the victims of the Nazi dictatorship. Every year since 1996, this is how the victims of the Nazis have been memorialized at the Bundestag on January 27- a date internationally known as Holocaust Remembrance Day.