Germany’s probable next leader talks about Ukraine, saving the economy and beating the AfD in an exclusive interview ...

Friedrich Merz is on the precipice of becoming Germany’s next chancellor. If successful, his conservatism and quest for new ...

BERLIN — Friedrich Merz, Germany's likely next chancellor, told POLITICO he's "very worried" the European Union is heading ...

Merz did not rule out reforming Germany’s debt brake but said that structural reforms particularly in refugee and ...

BERLIN — Angst (a German word) is spreading across the Bundesrepublik. Amid talk that the country is the “ sick man of Europe ...

IT IS A calm and confident Friedrich Merz who greets The Economist on February ... He can imagine working “very closely" with Giorgia Meloni, Italy’s right-wing prime minister.

"Alice fuer Deutschland" (Alice for Germany) chanted supporters as far-right leader Alice Weidel addressed an election rally ...

Inciting hatred against migrants, rearmament, and cuts in social provisions stood at the centre of the recent prime-time ...

For Germany, meeting a 3% target would require more than one quarter of the government budget to be spent on defence, ...

In countries across Europe, nativist far-right political parties have dramatically expanded their vote share in recent years, ...

Sunday's German election may result in a conservative-led coalition government that faces pressure for much-needed change to ...