Former German chancellor Angela Merkel on Monday called for European unity in the face of current political challenges, ...

Germany’s Green Party has threatened to torpedo plans put forward by likely incoming chancellor Friedrich Merz to invest ...

Weidel led the Alternative for Germany, a male-dominated party accused of far-right extremism, from the fringes into the heart of power.

Alas, poor Europe, I knew it well. A continent of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. Where be your gibes now? Your ...

Friedrich Merz heralds a new era for Germany, after the German elections revealed a majority of young voters are leaning ...

Already, Merz has pledged to increase defense spending and put Paris, Warsaw, and London at the lead of a new policy to shore ...

The expected happened in the German elections held on Sunday, February 23, 2025. The turnout was the largest in decades. The electorate gave the most votes to the Christian Democrats and their sister ...

Well, of course not. But Germany's accidental chancellor has a crucial role to play in history, like it or not ...

Germany's Social Democrats are one of the West's oldest political parties, with a legacy of advocating parliamentary democracy, opposing Nazism, and leading the modernisation of postwar Germany. In ...

The AfD’s historic score in German elections worries refugees and minorities, such as the 2SLGBTQ+ community, who fear ...

U.S. President Donald Trump is trying to end the Russia-Ukraine war without Europe’s participation (or Ukraine’s) and ...

The German federal election produced a parliament representing five main parties, plus one seat for regionalists in Schleswig ...