Germany has agreed measures to boost its sputtering economy in the face of the fast-spreading coronavirus, while also calling for the cancellation of large events.
The race to succeed Angela Merkel as Germany's chancellor became more unpredictable than ever after her protegee Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer threw in the towel as leader of the centre-right party.
Germany’s Health Minister Jens Spahn wants to overhaul medical care to take the pressure off hospitals and reduce emergency room waiting times. Here's how the proposals are shaping up.
Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, a close ally of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, on Friday won a party vote to succeed the veteran leader at the helm of the centre-right CDU.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel defended the "Christian, democratic" core values of her party on Friday as she handed over the leadership at a time populist parties are on the rise.
Tensions mounted in German Chancellor Angela Merkel's centre-right party on Thursday a day before a vote to decide who
succeeds her as party chief, with splits deepening among party heavyweights.
A loyal ally and two fierce critics are among the contenders to succeed Germany's Angela Merkel as head of the centre-right CDU party and secure a future shot at becoming chancellor.
Here's a look at the top candidates.
A knife-edge vote on Friday will determine Angela Merkel's successor as head of her party after 18 years at the helm, with the German chancellor's own political fate and legacy on the line.
The competition to become the new CDU leader is entering the final week – and Friedrich Merz, the man known as the ‘anti-Merkel', has stepped up his game.
The candidate for the CDU presidency, Friedrich Merz, expects an unconditional commitment to the German legal system from the approximately 4.5 million Muslims in Germany, he said at a regional conference in Düsseldorf on Wednesday evening.
The frontrunners to replace Angela Merkel when she steps down as CDU leader early next month have been having their say across the country. With just three more regional conferences, who will come out on top?
Candidates hoping to succeed Angela Merkel as leader of her CDU party have sparked outrage in Germany with controversial proposals on migration as they scramble to distance themselves from her liberal refugee policy.
Christian Democratic (CDU) supporters are increasingly backing Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer to take over as head of the CDU, according to a survey released Friday by the ZDF Politbarometer.
At a regional conference Wednesday, Christian Democratic (CDU) presidency competitor and frontrunner Friedrich Merz called for a debate on German asylum law.
After a German court fined her 6,000 euros ($7,400) for spelling out on her practice's website that she performs abortions, gynaecologist Kristina Hänel vowed that "it can't go on like this".
The outspoken Christian Democrat politician Jens Spahn told a newspaper on Saturday that Germany was a country without poverty thanks to its "Hartz IV" social security payments. Critics called his comments “cold-hearted and aloof.”
