If polls are correct, Olaf Scholz’s successor could be the 69-year-old leader of the Christian Democratic Union. He is ...

Friedrich Merz is a longtime rival of Angela Merkel who has tried to move their party back to the right.

Europe’s largest economy and normally a pillar of stability is facing snap elections next year after Chancellor Olaf Scholz ...

"The historical experience of the 20th century should be a warning that Germany and Europe should never again get involved in a war," Alice Weidel said ...

German opposition leader Friedrich Merz, who hopes to become the next chancellor, is a millionaire ex-corporate lawyer who ...

Germany can cover future increases in military spending without creating a special funding instrument, but must do more to ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says he is open to the potential deployment of Western troops in Ukraine to guarantee ...

With Donald Trump set to return to the White House, German opposition leader Friedrich Merz on Monday urged the creation of a ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Monday asked for more support from Germany against Russia while meeting with ...

He attacked the opposition conservatives under Friedrich Merz, who have a big lead in the polls ... to a prolonged dispute over government borrowing — an issue that is now front and center in the ...

With Friedrich Merz back at the helm of the CDU, so is ‘Leitkultur’ Credit: John MacDougall/AFP The CDU’s emphasis on “dominant culture” hints at a wider shift in Europe as mass ...

Polling nationally at 34 percent, the conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU), led by Friedrich Merz, is poised to make him Germany’s next leader. Even so, Merz would need to rely on ...