The condemnation of the AfD has raised a fundamental dilemma of democracy: How does an open, free, pluralistic society ...

Chancellor Friedrich Merz made a tougher migration policy a central plank of his election campaign and ordered more border ...

Lars Klingbeil has rapidly risen to become one of his country’s most influential politicians. But the hard part is just ...

The government is a centrist parliamentary coalition. To undo its predecessor’s democratic backsliding, it needs the ...

Germany's Free Democratic Party (FDP) is set to meet on Friday to appoint its new leadership, months after its catastrophic ...

The cordon sanitaire around the AfD necessitated an alliance with the anti-conservative SPD, even though voters had roundly repudiated the party in the most recent election. During the campaign, Merz ...

TOM KREBS is Professor of Economics at the University of Mannheim, member of the German Minimum Wage Commission, and former ...

Britain and Germany will jointly develop a new "deep precision strike" weapon with a range exceeding 2,000 kilometres (1,242 ...

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Wednesday urged the West not to be divided on Ukraine and said he was working to ensure ...

Friedrich Merz received a rude shock on the morning of May 6, 2025, as he prepared to lose the “in-waiting” qualifier from ...

In a wide-ranging speech in the Bundestag, the German Chancellor outlined his new government's priorities, including a plan ...

The former Bundestag president is poised to become co-leader of the SPD as it attempts a reboot after historic election ...