But the CDU didn’t choose him—at least, not at first. Twice, it picked centrists in the mold of Merkel. But the party kept losing electoral ground. Finally, in 2022, its members saw fit to ...

where his mentor was the late CDU powerbroker Wolfgang Schaeuble. After chancellor Helmut Kohl's long reign ended in a slush fund scandal, Merkel soon sidelined Merz to take over the party and ...

Angela Dorothea Merkel is a German former politician and scientist. She was the chancellor of Germany between 2005 and 2021, Leader of the Opposition between 2002 and 2005 and Leader of the Christian ...

Ms Nahles resigned after her centre-left party came third, behind Mrs Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU) and the Greens, in the European elections. She had been criticized by the SPD's left for ...

So far, only one party has picked a candidate to lead it into the vote: the Social Democrats (CDU) with Olaf Scholz, who currently serves as Chancellor Merkel's deputy in a coalition with her ...

(Bloomberg) -- Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz plans to free Germany from the fiscal straitjacket that former leader Angela Merkel had locked ... on the thinking of CDU leader Friedrich ...

Chancellor candidate Friedrich Merz's CDU/CSU has 208 out of 630 seats in the new Bundestag. Klöckner was Federal Minister of Agriculture in the last cabinet of Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU ...