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

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When former Die Linke leader Sahra Wagenknecht and her supporters quit to form their own party in October 2023, both sides of ...