Germany's presumptive next chancellor, Friedrich Merz, described his three-hour meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron ...

French President Emmanuel Macron and Germany's conservative chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz agreed during a meeting in ...

Hours after Friedrich Merz's conservatives won Germany's national election, he sent the outgoing Social Democrat government a ...

Hours after Friedrich Merz's conservatives won Germany's national election, he sent the outgoing Social Democrat government a ...

Friedrich Merz is poised to become Germany's next chancellor. He's long been a transatlanticist, but has already made clear he's no fan of Donald Trump.

Tuesday on the RealClearPolitics Podcast, Carl Cannon spoke with historian and Council on Foreign Relations fellow Liana Fix ...

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

“The End of Germany’s Climate Crusade.” That’s how a Politico headline last week described the country’s national elections held this past Sunday. The election was still days away, but opinion polls ...

The outcome of Germany’s federal election raises a question with vast implications for Europe and the world: How faithfully ...

Germany’s conservatives won the national election on Sunday, while the far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party ...

To immediately free up budgetary leeway to finance his country's rearmament, the incoming chancellor plans to vote in a ...

Compared to last October, when it became apparent that an election would be called, the vote for the CDU/CSU is down slightly vis a vis the polls, the AfD have not ...