The sweat was dripping off Friedrich Merz after the frontrunner to become Germany’s next chancellor saw his bid to outflank ...

State secretary, International Monetary Fund head, President of Germany: Horst Köhler's career reads like something out of a ...

Once little-known among his fellow Germans, Mr Kohler became a popular head of state, often positioning himself as an ...

Horst Koehler, former German president from 2004 to 2010 and a respected global policymaker with a particular interest in Africa, died on Saturday after a short illness at the age of 81, the federal ...

Horst Köhler, a onetime head of the International Monetary Fund who became a popular German president before stunning the ...

You have to make a decision. Do you want to have the party of [Chancellor] Olaf Scholz and all those eunuchs? Or are you on our side, with Elon Musk and Donald Trump? Which side has more sex appeal?” ...

Merz, now 69, represents a sharp rightward turn from Merkel’s centrist legacy. His campaign motto is “A Germany we can be ...

Friedrich Merz, hitherto favourite to become Germany's next chancellor, suffered a blow three weeks before a national ...

The CDU relied on AfD to pass a motion for the controversial bill, breaking a decades-long tradition of excluding the ...

Friedrich Merz and his Christian Democrats broke a political taboo by working with the hard-right Alternative for Germany to ...

In a dramatic swing to the right, Friedrich Merz’s CDU is proposing Germany breaches EU law by closing its borders to ...

BERLIN — Germany’s parliament is expected to vote Friday on an opposition bill calling for tougher rules on migration that ...