Germany’s economy is at a breaking point, and one controversial rule may be responsible - the debt brake. This strict policy, introduced in 2009, prevents Germany from borrowing more than 0.35% of its ...

Having led his party, the Christian Democrats, to first place in Germany’s election last month, Mr. Merz swiftly assumed the ...

Already, Merz has pledged to increase defense spending and put Paris, Warsaw, and London at the lead of a new policy to shore ...

Friedrich Merz heralds a new era for Germany, after the German elections revealed a majority of young voters are leaning ...

Who do I call if I want to speak to Europe? The question was famously attributed to former U.S. Secretary of State Henry ...

Watch the trailer for 'Merkel,' a documentary about Germany's historic chancellor, Angela Merkel, who ruled for 16 years.

When Elon Musk posted on X in December that the only thing that could “save Germany” was the AfD, he was embracing a ...

German conservative leader Friedrich Merz, the country's presumptive next chancellor, is not expected to accompany outgoing ...

EXCLUSIVE: As Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy proposes the idea of having ‘European Army' people in German border ...

Germany is poised for a shakeup in government after the country’s mainstream conservatives won its national election on Sunday, two months after outgoing Chancellor Olaf Scholz lost a confidence vote.

The strong performance of Germany’s far-right party, the Alternative für Deutschland, or AfD. AfD had shown surprising support in preelection polls, and grabbed a lot of attention in part thanks to ...

Friedrich Merz looks poised to form a coalition between his center-right alliance and the center-left Social Democrats, but ...