In Bonn there were two kinds of discontent last week: the politicians, upset because Chancellor Adenauer was not letting them in on his international dealings; the Chancellor, upset because his allies ...

Night fell and lights were snapped on in the big, modernistic debating hall of West Germany’s Bundestag. Wearily and warily the Bundestag debated the most important decision in its brief history—a ...

Friedrich Merz, Chairman and candidate for chancellor of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), speaks at the party's headquarters, the Konrad Adenauer House, after the forecast of the German federal ...

He was called “Der Alte” (“the old one”) by people mourning the death of Konrad Adenauer, West Germany’s first chancellor. Adenauer had been out of office for almost three years when I arrived in West ...

As Germany's new Chancellor Friedrich Merz meets US President Donald Trump for the first time at the White House on Thursday he'll be aware of how predecessors have tackled the transatlantic ...

BERLIN, November 10. /TASS/. Only 18% of Germans would support Friedrich Merz’s (Christian Democratic Union, CDU) nomination for his second term as chancellor at the next election in 2029, a survey ...