It is not a question of distributing the 35,000 job losses “fairly” between east and west Germany, but of preventing them.

Two weeks today, Friedrich Merz, leader of the conservative CDU party in Germany, will most likely be one step closer to ...

As for the roots of Germans’ despair, there’s a long list. Start with an economy that has flatlined for five years amid ...

The Gasumlage is killing us,” says Petr Cingr, the Czech chief executive of SKW, referring to the German government’s gas ...

German voters decide on 23 February who will run their next government, with Friedrich Merz's conservative Christian Democrats.

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

Chancellor Olaf Scholz said in a Feb. 8 interview that discussions over Germany potentially deploying its peacekeeping troops ...

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

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