Her conservative party has dominated German politics, ruling for 52 of the last 72 years and is facing its worst-ever defeat.... The 63-year-old candidate remained calm when CDU/ CSU’s Laschet came out swinging and tried to tarnish Scholz’s reputation as a safe pair of hands. Laschet, 60, needed a knock-out blow and, despite a bright start, fell far short of expectations.... In one of the more testy exchanges, Laschet accused the balding former mayor of Hamburg of failing in his supervisory ro

the first quarter of 2022.A spokesperson for Kurz during his chancellorship did not immediately return

's center-right Union bloc, with Armin Laschet as its candidate for chancellorship, has made small

Greens, making their first bid for the chancellorship, in third place after a campaign in which all three

having made it quite clear they weren’t upset to see her Chancellorship come to an end. According

with her Chancellorship as she faced down demands by Labour rebels to loosen government spending

All eyes are on Olaf Scholz, whose recent accession to German chancellorship is said to have marked

BERLIN( Reuters)-Former German chancellor Angela Merkel has turned down the offer of a job at the United Nations, her office said on Wednesday, a month after she stepped down as Europe's most powerful politician after 16 years at the helm.... Merkel, 67, called U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres last week to thank him for the job he had offered her in a letter and to tell him she would not accept it, the office said, without elaborating.... German media reported that Guterres had offered

The three candidates hoping to succeed Angela Merkel as German chancellor, and the four leaders of the other parties currently in parliament, clashed Thursday over a variety of topics in the last televised debate before Sunday's election. Unlike previous debates that repeatedly focused on climate change, poverty and other domestic topics, the candidates discussed foreign policy issues for the first time, too. Olaf Scholz of the center-left Social Democrats who is currently Germany’s finance mini

The conservative candidateto replace Angela Merkel as Chancellor Armin Laschet is in a fight for his political life after Sunday's election left the 60-year-old needing to form a ruling coalition with the Greens and liberal Free Democrats in order to maintain the CDU's hold on power in Germany.... However, defeat at the hands of the center-leftSocial Democrats( SPD) has left many CDU supporters and politicians calling for Mr Laschet to step down. EuroNews correspondent Lena Roche said:" The CDU