He has vowed to prioritize European unity and the continent’s security as it grapples with the new Trump administration and ...

is a conservative businessman who has never been a minister and was forced out of government years ago in a power struggle with Angela Merkel. The leader of the center-right Christian Democratic ...

Mr Merz is Chairman of the CDU - Germany's center-right party. It was headed for 18 years, from 2000 until 2018, by Angela Merkel. Friedrich Merz's stance on migration In January, Ms Merkel ...

Angela Bassett is not mad, she’s just disappointed. Bassett addresses the reaction to her 2023 Oscar loss in Town & Country. “I found it interesting,” she says in the February 20 profile ...

Von der Leyen, 66, has reigned supreme in Brussels ever since former German Chancellor Angela Merkel, her political patron, helped to catapult her into the powerful executive role in 2019. Indeed, ...

(CNN) — Friedrich Merz, the 69-year-old veteran German politician with a hardline stance on migration and a love of aviation, is the favorite to become the country’s next chancellor in the ...

Tunku Varadarajan lauds former German Chancellor Angela Merkel for her “stability and prudence” and “cautious solidity and centrist pragmatism” (“Memoirs From Mutti,” Bookshelf ...

But who is the old-school conservative who wants to rid his party, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), of former leader Angela Merkel’s centrist legacy? His long-time rival’s decision to ...

BERLIN — She just couldn’t stay silent. Angela Merkel — three years after stepping down as chancellor — lit a fire under Germany’s election campaign by choosing now to finally speak up. And it was to ...

Merkel blamed party leader Friedrich Merz for going back on a pledge not to work with the AfD. Merkel noted that party leader Friedrich Merz had said in November that no measures should be passed ...