An exit poll in Poland's presidential runoff shows the two candidates in a statistical tie with the race still too narrow to ...

After being passed over for a ministerial post in Germany’s new grand-coalition government, it was clear that Saskia Esken’s ...

Germany’s socialist party Die Linke has been revitalized by its recent election breakthrough. With the Social Democrats ...

In the 1920s and ’30s, Germans failed to heed the warnings of a feisty little newspaper called the Münchener Post.

Although Friedrich Merz has big ambitions for Germany’s international role, significant domestic pressures remain and will constrain his government’s room for manoeuvre.

As Germany marked the 80th anniversary of the end of the Nazi regime, President Frank-Walter Steinmeier warned that far-right populists were reviving “old, evil spirits”. Days earlier ...

Political analysts say it is emblematic of the democratic malaise in Germany that has also fuelled support for far-right party Alternative ... Bavaria’s Christian Social Union, said on X.

Seven hours late, the short ceremony in the Bundestag parliament chamber ended a long and dramatic day for the 69-year-old ... Social Democratic Party. Merz was already on track to be Germany ...

BERLIN — Friedrich Merz will be German chancellor after ... The 69-year-old now takes the helm of a fragile coalition consisting of his conservative bloc and the center-left Social Democratic Party ...

Germany’s domestic intelligence service has designated the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party as a “right-wing extremist” group, with the incoming government considering a ban, and the ...

The Social Democratic ... their party and Germany's center right party, the Christian Democratic Union, alongside its sister party, the Christian Social Union. The 47-year-old SPD veteran ...