When Olaf Scholz campaigned for the chancellorship in 2021, he presented himself as Angela Merkel’s natural heir. The pitch was simple: another reliable, steady leader who would manage Germany ...

Friedrich Merz is Europe's last hope, provided that he goes beyond the caricature of the chancellor created under the ...

Who is Merz and what is he like? With Angela Merkel and Olaf Scholz, we had figures who seemed somewhat wooden in public, but perhaps were more dynamic in person. How does Merz differ? Friedrich Merz ...

Meanwhile the governing centre-left SPD has slumped to third place in what looks set to be a disastrous result for Chancellor Olaf ... conservative Chancellor Angela Merkel, who led Germany ...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz may have been dubbed the "Scholzomat" for his ... after two decades of more centrist governance under Scholz and his predecessor Angela Merkel. The antithesis of a flashy ...

The surging far-right is a symptom of a world slipping out of progressive control – and comprehension.

But it was a lone voice of dissent that rocked the country’s political scene: Angela Merkel ... impugning both Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Ms. Merkel. Mr. Merz and his Christian Democrats ...

Germany is poised to go back to the future, with final polls indicating Sunday’s federal election will return the country to another grand coalition echoing the era of Angela Merkel. Merkel’s ...

The 69-year-old CDU candidate is set to become chancellor at a time when Germany is going through a deep economic, security ...

When Donald Trump won the US election in November, Germany’s government imploded. Chancellor Olaf Scholz sacked his finance minister, collapsed his dysfunctional coalition government and blew a gaping ...