As elections approach, leader of the opposition CDU presents voters with a centre-right cocktail that is remixed on a daily ...

Tens of thousands protest against Friedrich Merz and his Christian Democrats: Merz had presented parliament with proposals ...

Köhler, a onetime head of the International Monetary Fund who became a popular German president before resigning abruptly in a flap over comments about the country's military, has died at 81.

The sweat was dripping off Friedrich Merz after the front-runner to become Germany’s next chancellor saw his bid to outflank an ascendant far right spectacularly backfire in the ...

German politicians are holding a debate and vote on the controversial 'Influx Limitation Law', which aims to tighten ...

With cheers of surprise and shocked faces, Bundestag MPs narrowly rejected a migration bill on Friday pushed by the ...

The CDU relied on AfD to pass a motion for the controversial bill, breaking a decades-long tradition of excluding the ...

These are two parties which, Scottish independence aside, think largely the same way. Both centrist social democrats, John Swinney and Anas ...

As they head to the Swiss Alps for this year’s World Economic Forum, EU leaders are anxious over Trump’s trade saber-rattling and their China-reliant economies. In a new book, Axel Springer CEO ...

Angela Merkel served as chancellor of Germany for four consecutive four-year terms, from 2005 to 2021. Only Helmut Kohl had a longer stint at the helm of a democratic Deutschland—and he was in ...

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The gap, however, is more than made up for in German writer David Safier’s absurdist crime series in which Merkel gets a post-retirement makeover as a detective. Published in Germany since 2021 and ...