Despite being one of the most powerful women in global politics, former German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s feminism has remained ambiguous. Her memoir describes her evolving embrace of more proactive

Olaf Scholz has lost a vote of confidence in his leadership and Germany now faces its first election of the truly post-Angela Merkel era.

Nevertheless, it is a reminder again of Germany’s toxic reliance on Russian money. This is hardly a shock. Few countries have embraced Moscow quite so wholeheartedly. Ties between the two were forged during the old Soviet Union then fortified under a succession of naive German leaders after the Berlin Wall was torn down.

Friedrich Merz is a longtime rival of Angela Merkel who has tried to move their party back to the right.

Outside Germany, Germany is still intact. I often find this when I travel. Outside Germany, Germany is still a car country, home to a flourishing economy. Outside Germany, Germany is still a prosperous country,

Abdulmohsen. Police haven't cited a motive, but a minister confirmed that the suspect was “clearly Islamophobic.”

These pejoratives condemn former German Christian Democratic Union Chancellor Angela Merkel’s overweight 700-page memoir as not worth the price of admission. Merkel served 16 years as chancellor from 2005 to 2021 before voluntarily bowing out.

If polls are correct, Olaf Scholz’s successor could be the 69-year-old leader of the Christian Democratic Union. He is offering to get the German economic engine humming again.

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Political instability in Germany and France, combined with the return of Donald Trump in 2025, threatens to undermine the EU's ability to shape responses to the Ukraine war and other geopolitical and economic challenges.

The suspect's apparent beliefs have muddied attempts to use his alleged killing of five people and injuring 200 others as an anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim cautionary tale.

Taleb Al Abdulmohsen is in custody after driving his car into a Christmas market in the German city of Magdeburg Friday, killing five people, including a nine-year-old child and injuring over 200 others.