Chancellor Angela Merkel has been one of Germany’s most influential leaders and a standard setter for Europe for 16 years. Now the party that kept her at the helm of Europe’s largest economy ...

This was the year that finally wore down indomitable German Chancellor Angela Merkel. She will now watch as her party, the Christian Democratic Union, meets to elect a new chairperson.

The CDU contest was a long-delayed reminder that, after 16 years, the Merkel era is ending. The question that’s forming now is what that will look like — and how different it might be. See More : ...

Angela Merkel after being elected as CDU leader on April 4, 2000. Michael Jung / AFP - Getty Images Merz presented himself as the candidate who could bring back voters from the far-right populist AfD.

ANGELA Merkel has announced she is stepping down as Chancellor of Germany and will not seek re-election in 2021. She has also said she is leaving the position of Chairman in her own party in Decemb… ...

The CDU’s leftward shift under Merkel is nonetheless making it increasingly difficult for the CSU to fulfill the role of corralling right-wing voters into the Christian democratic camp.

ANGELA MERKEL is coming under huge pressure after a new poll showed the popularity of her Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party has plunged among Germans.

Angela Merkel’s handpicked successor as head of Germany’s conservatives has abandoned ambitions to become a chancellor and will step down as party leader, according to senior party officials.

Germany’s former Chancellor Angela Merkel has criticised the leader of her Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party for passing ...

This was the year that finally wore down indomitable German Chancellor Angela Merkel. She will now watch as her party, the Christian Democratic Union, meets to elect a new chairperson.