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

The policy includes the principle of non-refoulement, which states that no asylum seeker can be forced to return to a country where their life or freedom could be seriously threatened.

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When Angela Merkel rose to lead the CDU parliamentary group in 2002 and entered the chancellery in 2005, the much more conservative-minded Merz withdrew and stayed away from politics for years.

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open image in gallery Angela Rayner was stripped from her role as chair and campaign coordinator after the party suffered a devastating loss in the Hartlepool by-election of May 2021. (PA Archive ...

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The move broke a long-standing taboo in German politics against any cooperation with the far right. Merz’s predecessor and former Chancellor Angela Merkel promptly condemned his tactics.