German industry has been hit by soaring energy costs following EU sanctions against Russia. Major business groups such as ...

Germany is heading toward a crucial election following the collapse of Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s three-party coalition ...

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

They line up by the hundreds to meet recruiters at schools in provincial towns and convention halls in large cities, some ...

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

With cheers of surprise and shocked faces , Bundestag MPs narrowly rejected a migration bill on Friday pushed by the centre-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and backed by the far-right ...

The top contender to be Germany’s next chancellor, opposition leader Merz, lauds Ankara’s strategic geopolitical position ...

He held the ceremonial post of German president after a finance-focused career. Shortly into his second term, he became the ...

Having ousted Angela Merkel’s Union (an alliance between the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU) and the Christian Social Union in Bavaria (CSU)) in 2021, things could have – should have – ...

Friedrich Merz, leader of the opposition Christian Democratic Union (CDU), called for stricter migration policy and swifter deportations during a debate in Germany's parliament.

POLITICO has processed 35 years’ worth of election data to find out why this month’s vote is messier than ever ― and what will happen next.

DW looks at the main parties' campaign platforms.Germany' s center-right bloc of Christian Democratic Union and its Bavarian ...