DUSSELDORF, Germany — Widely regarded as the world's most powerful woman for more than a decade, Angela Merkel is seeing her time on the world stage draw to a close. But the front-runner to replace ...

HAMBURG — After a year in which she was repeatedly written off as politically dead, German Chancellor Angela Merkel was given new life and a more secure legacy Friday when her fellow conservatives ...

GERMAN POLITICS is in disarray after the sudden announcement that Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, leader of the ruling centre-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU), intends to resign. On February 10th Ms ...

Sunday’s defeat has revealed a gasping conservative party. But what that means for Germany’s future is not clear as traditional left-right politics are scrambled. By Katrin Bennhold and Melissa Eddy ...

Germany's ruling CDU chose Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer as its new chairperson to replace Angela Merkel on Friday (7 December), in a move that raised some doubts about which path the country's biggest ...