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

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

The hardline party has ‘an increasing influence on public opinion’, say analysts, as voters prioritise migration.

These are dramatic days in the usually dull world of German politics. Last Wednesday, midway through a fiercely fought ...

As the two frontrunners in Germany’s general election prepare to go head to head in the first televised debate, the former chancellor’s intervention is a sign of the concern within the political ...

Friedrich Merz is chasing voters defecting to the buoyant AfD and says that his policies are “right even if the wrong people ...

Delegates for Germany’s main Churches in Berlin condemned a bill to limit immigration brought forward in the Bundestag by the opposition Christian Democratic ...

The police union leader was particularly critical of Interior Minister Nancy Faeser of the Social Democrats, who, in his view, ignored warnings from law enforcement experts for years. Ostermann argued ...

The future of a new gas-fired power plant buildup in Germany hangs in the balance ahead of a Feb. 23 federal election.

Germans call in sick for over 20 days per year, much more than workers in other EU countries, which has prompted a radical ...

At 99, and after having survived three concentration camps, this citizen decided to return the Order of Merit after the ...

Comment: Christian Democratic Union leader Friedrich Merz risking a joint parliamentary vote with the far-right AfD was not a move to enable them. Indeed, his actions were designed to avoid further ...