He has vowed to prioritize European unity and the continent’s security as it grapples with the new Trump administration and ...

Decades after the unification of Germany, the rise of extremist parties has divided the country once again, leaving the ...

Germany has long been considered to have relatively ambitious climate goals and it’s likely that combatting climate change ...

Friedrich Merz's CDU party emerged as the largest party in Germany's parliament, the Bundestag, earning 28.6% of the vote.

A conservative alliance made up of the CDU and CSU is set to lead Germany again, but the new coalition government will have ...

Friedrich Merz and his party won, Elon Musk didn’t seem to move voters, and more lessons from an early German vote with big ...

Friedrich Merz’s mainstream Christian Democrats took the highest portion of a record number of votes. An ascendant far right, ...

German authorities have arrested a 19-year-old suspect in a Friday stabbing attack at Berlin’s Holocaust memorial.

Germany’s political system is set up to exclude extremists. Yet the country is waking up to a new political reality that has ...

Germany’s national election on Feb. 23, 2025, the 20th since the Federal Republic’s establishment in 1949, saw a significant ...

The Christian Democrats are forming a new coalition, with plans that include a possible restart of nuclear power.