- November 15th, 2026
Bavarian politician Ilse Aigner is set to become Germany’s next president, potentially making history as the first woman to hold the country’s largely ceremonial head-of-state office, following an agreement between Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s conservative bloc and the center-left Social Democratic...
Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel has reignited fierce debate within the country’s political landscape, taking aim at her own center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party for what she described as a dangerous compromise with the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD)....