The deeper rot in German governance will require more fundamental reforms than any coalition is likely to deliver.

Germans will head to the polls on Sunday to choose their next chancellor. The man favored to clinch the election is Friedrich Merz of the Christian Democrats. He has been considered a potentially ...

Germany's conservative leader Friedrich Merz said on Thursday the U.S. was at risk of sliding into longer-term authoritarian ...

The Republican-controlled U.S. Senate on Thursday confirmed Kash Patel as director of the FBI, putting a loyal defender of ...

A network of more than 700 fake social media accounts has sprung up in the last week of Germany's election campaign, ...

In the wake of Trump’s victory—and his administration’s transformation from staunch ally to sneering adversary—Germany’s ...

PETER SPARDING is Senior Vice President and Director of Policy at the Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress and ...

Friedrich Merz is on the precipice of becoming Germany’s next chancellor. If successful, his conservatism and quest for new ...

Musk won AfD a massive new audience, and JD Vance added support. That brought the party outsized attention, but the impact in ...

Germans will greet the next government with the stoniest of scepticism. Thorsten Faas, a political scientist at the Free ...

Friedrich Merz of the Christian Democratic Union is favored to replace Olaf Scholz of the Social Democratic Party as ...

A new poll of German voters released on Thursday shows the centre-right opposition bloc still firmly in the lead, but points ...