If anything unites the parties in Germany’s election campaign, it is running away from the former chancellor, whose legacy ...

Friedrich Merz is a familiar face of his conservative party's old guard. Politically, he has never come across as ...

Maassen has been repeatedly accused of using antisemitic codes, ranting about 'globalists,' a 'new world order,' or an ...

The frontrunner in the race to run Germany is Friedrich Merz, whose Christian Democrats (CDU) are up to 10 points ahead in ...

An 80-year firewall has been shattered as the centre-right offers to team up with the far-right AfD to pass tougher ...

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

POLITICO has processed 35 years’ worth of election data to find out why this month’s vote is messier than ever ― and what will happen next.

Reminders of Germany’s Nazi past are everywhere in the city of Pforzheim. Small brass “stumble stones” dotted through the streets mark the homes of Jewish people who were deported and murdered.

Note, though, that the world was going transactional long before Trump. The rise of China, which under Xi Jinping has sought ruthlessly to assert power and influence around the world, made a fracture ...

Hundreds of thousands of Germans protested at the beginning of February against the initiative by the CDU, supported by the ...