Alois Rainer, a butcher by training, has vowed to reverse Green-led food policies as chancellor-designate Friedrich Merz ...

BERLIN — The sturdiest pillars of Germany’s domestic and international identity have been pulverized with such dizzying speed ...

Germany's next chancellor is set to be conservative leader Friedrich Merz after his party, thee Christian Democratic Union, ...

Mr Merz’s prosperous upbringing in the Sauerland, a well-to-do, rural Catholic region in Germany’s west, and his early career ...

His grandfather came from Turkey decades ago to work in the coal mines of the western German town of Gelsenkirchen, but ...

Germany's domestic intelligence service has classified the popular Alternative for Germany party as "extremist," allowing for ...

Germany ’s center-left Social Democrats have approved a deal to join a new coalition government, paving the way for ...

Germany’s incoming Chancellor Friedrich Merz is set take office on Tuesday 6th May. Columnist Brian Melican sifts through a ...

Germany’s foreign ministry hit back at U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio after he criticized the decision to classify the ...

Germany's Social Democrats have backed a treaty for a coalition with the CDU/CSU conservatives, the party said on Wednesday, ...

The designation is certain to inflame debates over whether the party should be banned, though some polls show it to be the ...

German conservatives under Friedrich Merz clinched a coalition deal with the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) on Wednesday, ...