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

As the country goes to the polls, writers explore, in fiction and non-fiction, its identity and values — and where these suggest it is heading ...

BERLIN — Four candidates are bidding to be Germany's next leader in Sunday's election. The would-be chancellors are the ...

Friedrich Merz, the 69-year-old veteran German politician with a hardline stance on migration and an expensive aviation hobby ...

Here are five reasons for Germany's ongoing economic slump: Moscow's decision to cut off natural gas supplies to Germany in ...

This recent polling data will come as a surprise to many. Like many of the “new right” parties in Europe, the AfD began as an ...

Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel issued another platitude, calling for Russia's victory in the Ukrainian conflict to be ...

Germany's former chancellor Angela Merkel has doubled down on her criticism of Christian Democratic Union, or CDU, leader ...

Sidelined by Angela Merkel in the early 2000s, Friedrich Merz left politics for 20 years until she announced her retirement in 2018.

Alternative for Germany appears to be heading for its strongest national election result yet this month and is fielding its ...