Friedrich Merz, the frontrunner to become Germany's next chancellor, said defence spending targets should be aligned with ...

Friedrich Merz, the German conservative who is the front-runner to become the next chancellor, downplayed a remark by US ...

The anti-immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has welcomed the mandate received by the far-right Freedom Party of ...

Angela Merkel hired no fewer than eight English language translators to work on her new autobiography, which is astonishing ...

Elon Musk isn't a citizen of any European country, but he's still doubling down on his support for the far-right in Germany ...

Elon Musk has backed the AfD in Germany and Nigel Farage's Reform UK in Britain, and praised Italy's right-wing prime ...

The debt brake was this limit on government debt and deficits that was introduced in the first Merkel grand coalition, in ...

Germany's snap poll in February 2025 follows a year of political instability, economic decline, and tensions over Ukraine, ...

US President-elect Donald Trump’s demand for NATO members to increase their defense spending from the 2% minimum target to 5% ...

With opposition leader Friedrich Merz likely to be Germany’s next chancellor, experts weigh in on whether his tough China stance will hold.

Support for Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s SPD, the Greens, and the FDP has declined as opposition parties like the CDU and the AfD ...

Ahead of Germany's election in February, Bavaria's conservative CSU party has said it will only accept migrants who pay their own way. Experts see their policy proposals as electioneering and ...