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

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 ...

Friedrich Merz, head of the conservative Christian Democrats, has vowed to bring stronger leadership to Europe, where the new ...

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

German nationals are heading to the ballots on February 23, with the country's current Chancellor, Olaf Scholz, down in ...

Trump hailed the result as a "GREAT DAY FOR GERMANY," while the far-right AfD party that Elon Musk has championed made ...

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

Angela Merkel, the once-beloved former chancellor, who called Mr. Merz’s decision simply “wrong.” Ms. Merkel and Mr. Merz have famously jockeyed to lead Germany’s Christian Democrats for ...

He has vowed to prioritize European unity and the continent’s security as it grapples with the new Trump administration and ...

The centre-right CDU has emerged as the biggest party in the German election, making Merz the most likely to lead a ...

With Angela Merkel and Olaf Scholz ... a sentence that he said when we were discussing migration policies in Germany. He literally said “the time of compromise has ended.” ...