Preliminary talks aim to establish guidelines, timeline for formal coalition talks, as migration, public spending emerge as ...

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

Friedrich Merz aims to swiftly form government after his conservative bloc's February 23 election win. SPD leader Lars Klingbeil stressed a coalition with the CDU/CSU was "not automatic" amid key ...

Economy / Opposition to the status quo must not be monopolized by the right-wing extremist visions of parties like ...

German politician Friedrich Merz won the country's most recent election. Even if many didn’t expect it, he’s well acquainted ...

The situation is bad for freedom of expression everywhere - but I’ve never felt this sense of lacking oxygen as I do here' ...

Germany's conservative bloc and the Social Democrats (SPD) have started exploratory talks aimed at forming a new government ...

It’s not just in Britain that defence spending is top of the agenda. In Germany, too, the debate has turned to how the ...

In today’s edition of The Capitals, discover more about the new Austrian government’s push for an EU electricity market ...

The parliamentary elections in Germany were held, one might say, in German — organized, calm and thorough, without shocks, ...

Right-wing politicians are finding themselves sounding like the left in the face of a White House that is threatening the ...

In Germany’s special election Sunday, seven months earlier than the normal date because the trio-run government collapsed, ...