Incoming Germany Chancellor Friedrich Merz has a heavy lift: shake Europe’s economic engine out of stagnation. Markets are ...

Germany’s 2025 election results mark a right-wing shift, reshaping European politics and US-EU relations. As CDU and AfD gain ...

BERLIN (AP) — Negotiators from German election winner Friedrich Merz's conservative bloc and the center-left Social Democrats ...

Should an AfD-led Germany withdraw from NATO, the alliance would surely collapse, as would an EU without Germany. Instead, a ...

Mass Indonesian protests against Prabowo Subianto. Israel and Hamas hold ceasefire deal talks. Germany’s election shake-up.

The German elections are, in many respects, paradoxical. The electoral shifts, which saw the major parties’ combined vote ...

Three times in the postwar era Germany made strategic choices that benefited Europe—with the US at its side. Now it must do ...

Friedrich Merz aims to swiftly form government after his conservative bloc's February 23 election win. SPD leader Lars Klingbeil stressed a coalition with the CDU/CSU was "not automatic" amid key ...

Friedrich Merz is in favor of boosting Europe’s military strength, standing against antisemites and by the Jewish state, and getting tougher on Iran.

Opposition to the status quo must not be monopolized by the right-wing extremist visions of parties like Alternative für ...

It’s not just in Britain that defence spending is top of the agenda. In Germany, too, the debate has turned to how the ...