These are dramatic days in the usually dull world of German politics. Last Wednesday, midway through a fiercely fought ...

Friedrich Merz is chasing voters defecting to the buoyant AfD and says that his policies are “right even if the wrong people ...

Comment: Christian Democratic Union leader Friedrich Merz risking a joint parliamentary vote with the far-right AfD was not a move to enable them. Indeed, his actions were designed to avoid further ...

Friedrich Merz, the favourite to become Germany's next chancellor, said on Monday that he is ready to lead the country as his ...

The CDU relied on AfD to pass a motion for the controversial bill, breaking a decades-long tradition of excluding the ...

After the conservative CDU-CSU bloc joined with the far-right Alternative für Deutschland party to pass a non-binding motion ...

How Germany, like other countries in the West, can avoid sweeping judgments and take a clear-eyed approach to a complex reality.

Germany's ex-chancellor Angela Merkel weighed in Thursday on a controversy flaring ahead of February elections, slamming her ...

In Germany, a toxic national debate on Muslims and immigration has fueled the rise of the far-right Alternative für Deutschland. Polling second place ahead of February’s federal elections, mainstream ...

Im Vorfeld der Inauguration von Donald Trump reichten die Einlassungen in Berlin von demonstrativer Gelassenheit (Friedrich Merz ... die Äußerungen aus Deutschland nicht allzu viele schlaflose ...