If Merz cannot unite the CDU and SPD, the AfD’s strategy of forcing conservatives to co-operate with them could succeed ...

For eight years, the co-leader of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) has used the Bundestag as a launch pad for ...

The 69-year-old chancellor hoped to use his first summer television interview as German leader to showcase his coalition’s ...

An impassioned debate involving abortion and a plagiarism allegation underscores the German coalition’s relative fragility.

Germany's far-right lawmakers vowed to dress smartly, minimise parliamentary cat-calling, and signed up to a short manifesto ...

The German parliament has held a special session for the 30th anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre. The far-right AfD ...

Germany's defense minister is due to hold talks with his counterpart in Washington on Ukraine and NATO. DW rounds up the latest headlines from Germany.

Jens Spahn, the powerful parliamentary leader of Merz's centre-right, faces a reckoning over Covid-era procurement calls that ...

Germany’s Bundestag debated the national budget on Wednesday and the far-right AfD party leapt at the chance to blame immigrants for feeding off the welfare state. The data, however, suggests that the ...

A serious rift broke out Friday within Germany’s coalition government over the appointment of new judges to the ...

The German media are forming the idea that Berlin's anti-Russian course, which intensified with the arrival of Friedrich Merz ...