German industry has been hit by soaring energy costs following EU sanctions against Russia. Major business groups such as ...

Framed as the troublemaker in an unpopular coalition, the FDP is mostly polling below Germany’s electoral threshold of 5%. If ...

BERLIN — Angst (a German word) is spreading across the Bundesrepublik. Amid talk that the country is the “ sick man of Europe ...

Alternative for Germany helped push an immigration restriction proposal over the threshold, breaking the "firewall" surrounding the right-wing party.

A Tougher Stance on Iran: Although direct military intervention is ruled out, Merz has indicated a more confrontational ...

Germany: Over 160,000 Protest Against Far-Right AfD Party Ahead of Election | Firstpost America | N18G Tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets of several cities in Germany to protest ...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Sunday accused his election rival Friedrich Merz of having broken his word by accepting ...

Germany’s conservatives are desperate to avoid a three-party coalition, but the outcome depends on how many small parties ...

Even if Merz stumbles across the finish line and secures a coalition government, the death knell for Christian democracy may ...

Friedrich Merz is a familiar face of his conservative party's old guard. Politically, he has never come across as ...

IT IS A calm and confident Friedrich Merz who greets The Economist on February 7th at a luxury golf resort in Stromberg, a ...

MARKUS SCHREIBER / AP Twenty-four hours after the shock caused in Germany by the unprecedented alliance between the Christian Democratic ... "The NSDAP [National Socialist Party], too, was banned ...