Germany's conservative opposition leader and possible next chancellor, Friedrich Merz, on Wednesday rejected a reform of the ...

Few politicians have been more lauded during their careers and more excoriated in retirement than Angela Merkel. The former German chancellor who held the post longer than anyone except Bismarck and ...

As layoffs threaten German auto and steel workers, unions are threatening large-scale strikes and politicians are fumbling ...

The incoming coalition in Thuringia, which includes the Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW), has agreed on a drastic austerity programme that goes hand in hand with a massive beefing up of the state’s ...

Angela Merkel, whose successive governments demanded deep austerity from neighbours in the euro zone debt crisis, said the ...

Angela Merkel has defended her 2015 selfie with a Syrian refugee after opening Germany’s borders, as she insisted she had no ...

Angela Merkel has set out to secure her reputation in a 700-page memoir in which the former German chancellor defends her 16 ...

German Economy Minister Robert Habeck wants to change the European Union's laboriously negotiated debt rules, calling them "a security risk" because they are preventing much-needed spending on defence ...