Merkel after her 16-year tenure. Ultimately her ruling CDU’s pick for Chancellor Armin Laschet lost to

party out of a years-long slump, and Armin Laschet, the candidate of Merkel's party who saw his party's

the center-left Social Democrats, called for Merkel's center-right Union bloc to go into opposition

Recent surveys show the Social Democrats marginally ahead.... The Social Democrats have been boosted by Scholz’s relative popularity after a long poll slump, and by his rivals’ troubled campaigns.... Polls show support for all of them below 30%....

A man casts his ballot for the German elections in a polling station in Berlin, Germany, Sunday, Sept.... Recent surveys show the Social Democrats marginally ahead.... The environmentalist Greens, with candidate Annalena Baerbock, are making their first run for the chancellery, and polls put them several points behind in third place....

PARIS( Reuters)-Angela Merkel's exit from the EU stage she dominated for 16 years has handed French

after theupcoming Bundestag election.... Angela Merkel is set to step down as German Chancellor

The two EU leaders are preparing to sign a new bilateral treaty of the likes of the Franco-German Elysée Treaty.... The agreement will seek to reinforce cross-border cooperation between Paris and Rome. The pact was originally negotiated by former Italian Prime Minister, now European Commissioner for Economy, Paolo Gentiloni.It is expected to" shift" the balance of power in the EU, according to Macron's MP Christophe Di Pompeo.He told Politico:" For me, it is not so much the content that is impo

It appears that Angela Merkel will be the chancellor again in 2017. No other candidates fit for

the country’s first post-war chancellor to retire on her own volition. Merkel’s calm leadership