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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Friedrich Merz takes office as Germany’s new chancellor under a cloud of uncertainty. With internal dissent, a surging far ...

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

Christian Democratic Union leader Friedrich Merz will visit the Elysée for his first trip abroad on Wednesday. Emmanuel Macron and Merz are well acquainted, having met both before and after the German ...

US President Donald Trump’s secretary of state Marco Rubio accused the German state of “tyranny in disguise”, further ...