Interview with Michele Valensise, ambassador and new president of the Istituto Affari Internazionali: "We must live with a ...

Having twice voted with the Alternative for Germany (AfD) in favor of a brutal policy of sealing the borders against refugees ...

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 ...

Merz, now 69, represents a sharp rightward turn from Merkel’s centrist legacy. His campaign motto is “A Germany we can be ...

LOS ANGELES, USA - Newsaktuell - 31 January 2025 - High levels of governance have masked a slow decline in Germany, with political, economic, and soc ...

Friedrich Merz and his Christian Democrats broke a political taboo by working with the hard-right Alternative for Germany to ...

Friedrich Merz, hitherto favourite to become Germany's next chancellor, suffered a blow three weeks before a national election on Friday when 12 of his own legislators refused to support him in ...

One might almost suspect – what a shocking thought – that conservatives are once again invoking a state of emergency as a ...

Germany's Social Democrats are doubling down on criticism of conservative opposition leader Friedrich Merz, after a controversial bill on tighter migration policy tabled by his bloc was narrowly ...

German opposition leader and Christian Union parties floor leader Friedrich Merz speaks after the debate and a voting about migration at the German parliament Bundestag.

Social trust in Germany is declining, a new report based on the Berggruen Governance Index (BGI) ahead of Germany’s February 23 parliamentary election warns. However, a possible ...