If anything unites the parties in Germany’s election campaign, it is running away from the former chancellor, whose legacy ...

Inciting hatred against migrants, rearmament, and cuts in social provisions stood at the centre of the recent prime-time ...

Germans fear for the future of the firewall against the far right, but Friedrich Merz’s lead may survive the fallout he has caused.

Germany's outgoing government on Wednesday extended by six months the border checks it imposed on all its frontiers last fall ...

Friedrich Merz, had criticized Trump, these people said. Scholz and Merz wouldn’t be invited to the inauguration, Trump said, adding disparaging remarks about the German leaders and the country ...

Davos comes in for perennial abuse as being a fun park for the 1% (of the 1%), while fairly wacky conspiracy theories proclaim that the Swiss ski resort is home to an evil cabal bent on forcing ...

There is no such thing as a “lesser evil” in this election ... The SPD is prepared to continue this role under Friedrich Merz, a former BlackRock manager and the Christian Democratic Union ...

After years of pandering to far-right talking points, Germany is on the brink of voting in the AfD — and it only has itself ...