Germany’s conservatives are desperate to avoid a three-party coalition, but the outcome depends on how many small parties ...

A crisis-ridden, politically unstable Germany is coping with a brash and unpredictable Trump presidency. Germans look set to alter course and push for more independence after snap elections on Feb. 23 ...

The sweat was dripping off Friedrich Merz after the frontrunner to become Germany’s next chancellor saw his bid to outflank ...

Chancellor candidate Friedrich Merz and his conservatives slump in poll after far-right backing for migration vote.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Sunday said it was important not to divide the world with new trade barriers, as everyone ...

Friedrich Merz, the CDU’s candidate for chancellor in Germany’s upcoming snap elections in February, is looking to shore up ...

In the run up to Germany’s snap general elections Jeremy Cliffe goes to Ludwigshafen, a symbol of Germany's economic woes.

Germany's conservative election frontrunner Friedrich Merz defiantly vowed Friday to pass ... As MPs traded bitter recriminations in parliament, centre-left Chancellor Olaf Scholz warned that Merz ...

Merz, now 69, represents a sharp rightward turn from Merkel’s centrist legacy. His campaign motto is “A Germany we can be ...

Friedrich Merz, the frontrunner to become Germany’s next chancellor ... “Merz can no longer be trusted,” said German Chancellor Olaf Scholz; Robert Habeck, the chancellor candidate for the Greens, ...

Germany's parliament has narrowly rejected an opposition-sponsored bill calling for tougher rules on migration that risked ...

The centre-right CDU has been accused of breaking 'taboo' by putting forward a motion to the Bundestag for a stricter ...