MUNICH — Polls show many German conservatives want to switch out their parties’ candidate for chancellor just six weeks before the election, but the more popular pick says he won’t oblige. The chosen ...

Every year, Forbes magazine produces a list of the most powerful women in the world. And in 14 of the past 15 years, it has been the same person - Angela Merkel. German's chancellor has dominated ...

“We have to compete with the one with whom we have the best chances according to surveys, and that is by far Markus Söder,” Rhineland-Palatinate CDU member of the Bundestag Johannes Steiniger told Der ...

Politics is often a matter of alternating opposites, as parties and nations choose leaders who seem best able to put right the faults of their predecessor. Thus calm and unifying John Major succeeded ...