Germany's presumptive next leader Friedrich Merz has an "absolute will to power," former chancellor Angela Merkel said on Thursday. Merkel's comments came one day after her centre-right party, the ...

In Stuttgart, the Black Zero statue was created by the state finance ministry of Baden-Württemberg in 2014 to celebrate the fact that it had reached a balanced budget several times in the previous ...

Friedrich Merz is on course to become Germany's 10th post-World War II chancellor, the culmination of a long political career that was once sidelined by his party’s iconic leader, Angela Merkel ...

“This really is democracy’s last bullet,” said CSU leader Markus Söder. While he was referring to the threat from the far right if the coalition fails, Germany in 2025 has a long list of dangers to ...

Germany is grappling with a dilemma over what its postwar vow of ‘Nie wieder’, or never again, means in practice – is it a ...

During coalition negotiations, politicians from Germany's future governing parties butted heads over the question of ...

Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel has criticized her center-right Christian Democrats (CDU) for using the support of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) to push a hard-line migration ...

Bertrand Benoit is the Germany bureau chief of The Wall Street Journal.

BERLIN — Conservative leader Friedrich Merz is on course to become post-World War II Germany’s 10th chancellor ... derailed by former Chancellor Angela Merkel in the early 2000s and even ...

Berlin authorities issued deportation orders to two Irish citizens for taking part in pro-Palestinian protests. Germany's ...

German conservatives under Friedrich Merz clinched a coalition deal with the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) on Wednesday, ...