The country’s likely next chancellor wanted to focus on the economy—before suddenly betting everything on culture war.

You have to make a decision. Do you want to have the party of [Chancellor] Olaf Scholz and all those eunuchs? Or are you on our side, with Elon Musk and Donald Trump? Which side has more sex appeal?” ...

As Germans prepare to vote on Feb. 23, an almighty argument over whether mainstream parties should work with the ...

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

The German parliament narrowly rejected on Friday a bill sponsored by conservatives and the far right calling for stricter ...

Germany's parliament rejected on Friday an opposition draft law on tightening immigration policy, averting the prospect of a ...

The sweat was dripping off Friedrich Merz after the frontrunner to become Germany’s next chancellor saw his bid to outflank ...

It was perhaps the most dramatic week for German politics in decades as the Bundestag on Friday held three nail-biting votes to tighten migration rules after yet another terrorist attack committed by ...

Horst Köhler, a onetime head of the International Monetary Fund who became a popular German president before stunning the ...

The bill had the support of both Germany's conservatives and the far-right Alternative for Germany, which are leading in the ...

Friedrich Merz, hitherto favourite to become Germany's next chancellor, suffered a blow three weeks before a national ...

If the law had passed, it would have been the first in the country’s modern history to do so thanks to the support of the far-right.