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 ...

Don’t be fooled: Germany’s Christian Democratic Uni­on is not the same party it was under the former chancellor, Angela Merkel. In early February, just a few weeks before the German federal elections, ...

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Merkel refused to be drawn on the detail of the allegations and directed enquiries to the current chancellery, which keeps government archives. Jens Spahn, who was Germany's health minister at the ...

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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 ...

Germany’s likely next chancellor ... s fiscal policy since it was introduced by former Chancellor Angela Merkel in 2009 and limited new borrowing to 0.35 percent of GDP. Economists and investors ...