IT IS A calm and confident Friedrich Merz who greets The Economist on February 7th at a luxury golf resort in Stromberg, a ...

Friedrich Merz, front-runner to be Germany's next chancellor, warned that Europe must be united in foreign, security and ...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz accused his main challenger in the upcoming election of “constant about turns," while Friedrich ...

While the Christian Democrat camp is comfortably leading in the polls, the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) is ...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and opposition leader Friedrich Merz clash ahead of the February 23 election. Scholz accuses ...

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

Germany has a complicated system: voters get two votes, one for the candidate in their own constituency, and another for a party's electoral list. There's also a minimum 5% threshold for a party to ...

Major parties and minnows are all promising more and quicker deportations to solve the migration debate as the country is set ...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz insists he would 'never' cooperate with the far right in the way he says his rival Friedrich ...

In the must-see video above, more than 200,000 people protested against the far-right Alternative fur Deutschland (AfD) in ...

A new ECFR poll points to Europeans’ widespread (but not universal) reassessment of the transatlantic relationship, and ...