Germany's center-right bloc of Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its Bavarian sister party Christian Social Union (CSU) has unanimously voted in favor of an election program that promises to lower ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

Friedrich Merz hopes to lure away AfD supporters, but will he alienate voters in the ideological middle?

Friedrich Merz, a leading German political figure, has raised serious concerns about what he calls a “new and unsettling ...

And the defence minister, Boris Pistorius, has become Germany’s most popular politician despite issuing stark warnings that ...

Friedrich Merz, the CDU’s candidate for chancellor in Germany’s upcoming snap elections in February, is looking to shore up ...

A new premier in France and soon in Canada, a new coalition in Austria, new presidents in Georgia and Moldova despite ...

The front-runner in Germany’s upcoming election says the far-right Alternative for Germany is his “most important opponent” ...

Friedrich Merz, the conservative frontrunner in the German election, vowed to hold course on his disputed plan to limit ...