Germany faces a severe economic crisis with receding growth, high energy costs, and bureaucratic challenges. Experts predict ...

The Merz-led coalition government marks a shift to the right, pledging economic revival, stricter migration policies and a ...

The condemnation of the AfD has raised a fundamental dilemma of democracy: How does an open, free, pluralistic society ...

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz called on his conservative Christian Democrats (CDU) to focus more on the east of the ...

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz defended his government's new migration policy on Saturday, saying it remains in line with ...

Germany’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its sister party, the Christian Social Union (CSU)—collectively known as the ...

Significantly, Merz began his speech by praising the pro-war and rearmament policies of his predecessor, Olaf Scholz (SPD).

Two narratives presenting opposing takes on the classification of Alternative for Germany (AfD) as an extremist far-right ...

A German spy agency deems the party a threat to the “democratic order,” but voters say otherwise—should they be silenced, too ...

Germany has this week deployed a permanent military brigade beyond its borders for the first time since the end of World War ...

Germany’s February election produced an unprecedented result. The center-right Christian Democratic Union, led by Friedrich Merz, won the most votes and the largest number of seats in the Bundestag.

German lawmakers are set to vote Tuesday on whether conservative leader Friedrich Merz will become the country's 10th chancellor since World War II.