BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's Social Democrats (SPD) said on Wednesday they had agreed to start talks on a possible coalition ...

PARIS (Reuters) - French President Emmanuel Macron will dine with Germany's chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz at the ...

German conservative leader Friedrich Merz, the country's presumptive next chancellor, is set to make a surprise visit to ...

Friedrich Merz’s reluctance to reform the debt brake and flirtation with the far-right have come back to bite him.

Paul Hockenos is a journalist and author based in Berlin. His most recent book is “Berlin Calling: A Story of Anarchy, Music, ...

CDU celebrations are muted because a 28.52pc vote share means a weaker negotiating position in coalition with the centre-Left ...

Merz has four to five years not just to breathe new life into his party, but to ensure the country’s traditional political ...

Thames Water is in purgatory. Britain’s biggest water utility recently averted collapse via an expensive 3 billion pound loan ...

Germany's economy is in desperate need of foreign labor, but a political environment hostile to all kinds of immigrants makes ...

If he wants an effective governing majority, Chancellor Friedrich Merz must invite the AfD into the government.

Friedrich Merz and the CDU's victory in the German election present a shift in Germany's foreign policy, with an emphasis on ...

Can Palestinians get a little Humanitarian Intervention? Of all the ideological mystifications created by the white West to ...