A crisis-ridden, politically unstable Germany is coping with a brash and unpredictable Trump presidency. Germans look set to alter course and push for more independence after snap elections on Feb. 23 ...

Friedrich Merz, the conservative frontrunner for Germany’s next chancellor, has raised concerns over Elon Musk’s relentless ...

In Germany, thousands protest far-right immigration bill  On Sunday, around 160,000 protesters took to the streets of Berlin ...

Chancellor hopeful Friedrich Merz criticizes Elon Musk’s support to far-right AfD party, his controversial posts about ...

Touting 'special' bonds like long-established economic ties and Turks contributing to German welfare, Chancellor Scholz ...

A heated week in German politics, prompted by conservative opposition leader Friedrich Merz's divisive decision to lean on far-right votes in parliament, has hardly budged polls ahead of elections on ...

Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is Europe's longest-serving head of government – and the most polarizing. In an NZZ ...

I do not approve of someone in Trump’s orbit attempting such direct interference in Germany’s elections,” says Friedrich Merz.

Millions are set to go to the polls in key energy economies in 2025 as politicians seek to woo electorates with security, the cost of living, exploitation of natural resources and decarbonisation ...

The shots fired in last May’s assassination attempt on Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico were not the first -or the only- to target a politician whose authoritarian drift has not stopped him from ...

I carefully studied the Ukrainian media yesterday. First of all, UNIAN (Ukrainian Independent News Agency). What is most ...

Even if Merz stumbles across the finish line and secures a coalition government, the death knell for Christian democracy may ...