The popularity of most politicians follows a similar course. Some grow to be palatable enough to win an election and then fall increasingly out of favour before eventually being booted out.

Germany's presumptive next leader Friedrich Merz has an "absolute will to power," former chancellor Angela Merkel said on Thursday. Merkel's comments came one day after her centre-right party, the ...

Bojan Pancevski is The Wall Street Journal’s chief European political correspondent, covering European and global affairs. He ...

Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel has criticized her center-right Christian Democrats (CDU) for using the support of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) to push a hard-line migration ...

Former German chancellor Angela Merkel was still one of the ... said two major things have shifted the landscape in Germany since Merkel retired: the war in Ukraine and "the collapse of the ...

Angela Merkel’s long-anticipated memoir ... now seem to mark her 16-year tenure as chancellor. She deepened Germany’s economic dependency on China and its energy dependency on Russia ...

Angela Merkel has defended her 2015 selfie with a Syrian refugee after opening Germany’s borders, as she insisted she had no regrets about her response to the migration crisis.

Angela Merkel wrote a 736-page memoir to secure her ... Formerly celebrated in some quarters for opening Germany’s doors to asylum seekers who began flooding Europe’s borders in 2015, Merkel ...

Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel recalls Vladimir ... There was no such warmth with Trump, who had criticized Merkel and Germany in his 2016 campaign. Merkel says she had to seek an ...

Ruth Bender was a correspondent based in Berlin who covered a broad range of topics from business over politics to social issues for The Wall Street Journal.

Bertrand Benoit is the Germany bureau chief of The Wall Street Journal.

"We started two world wars. Even though it's 80 years since World War Two ended, the idea that Germans should stay out of ...