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

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

There is a growing anti-migrant sentiment, but also a willingness to continue inviting more skilled migrants. Where will it ...