Heated rhetoric and divisive questions raise concerns about the fragility of democracy amid US-style politics.

He has neither Obama’s swagger nor Macron’s grandiose vision, let alone Angela Merkel’s reputation for integrity and selflessness.

Europe is a case in point. Vice President JD Vance delivered the painful truth at the Munich Security Conference, and the ...

BERLIN — Four candidates are bidding to be Germany's next leader in Sunday's election. The would-be chancellors are the ...

Germany heads to the polls this week facing a challenge for power from the far-right. In the run-up to the historic vote, ...

The federal elections in Germany are scheduled for February 23, having been preponed seven months due to the collapse of the governing coalition in December 2024. A total of 630 members will be ...

Friedrich Merz, the 69-year-old veteran German politician with a hardline stance on migration and a love of aviation, is the favorite to become the country’s next chancellor in the federal election on ...

Friedrich Merz, the man expected to become Germany's next chancellor, has vowed to rule Europe's top economy by returning to his Christian Democrats' conservative roots, help business and crack down ...

Friedrich Merz, the leader of Germany’s conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU), introduced a nonbinding motion in the Bundestag to tighten the country’s immigration procedures. It called for an ...

Germany's former chancellor Angela Merkel has doubled down on her criticism of Christian Democratic Union, or CDU, leader ...

Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner is planning to create a ... He lost his seat after standing as an independent in that year’s general election. In a foreword to the all-party report, the ...