German conservatives under Friedrich Merz clinched a coalition deal with the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) on Wednesday, ...

Germany's presumptive next leader Friedrich Merz has an "absolute will to power," former chancellor Angela Merkel said on ...

The agreement was concluded relatively quickly but still took about six and half weeks, during which the country had been ...

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But Mr Merz cuts a very different figure from Angela Merkel, the centrist conservative who ran Germany for 16 years before Mr Scholz. Blaming her centrism and liberal immigration policies for the ...

The tougher stance on migration explicitly moves Germany away from a more liberal policy under Merz’s conservative predecessor Angela Merkel during the 2015 European migrant crisis. The CDU is ...

On October 21, 2023, Olaf Scholz, ­Germany’s then chancellor, ­appeared on the cover of Der Spiegel alongside the quote: “We have to deport people more ­often and faster.” The headline wa ...