Ursula von der Leyen is about to face the most serious challenge to her leadership since she became European Commission ...

The 69-year-old CDU leader Friedrich Merz is a major favourite for the German chancellorship after Sunday's snap ...

Germany holds its snap national election on Sunday following the collapse of Olaf Scholz's three-way coalition, and the ...

Germany's opposition leader Friedrich Merz is the front-runner in the country's election campaign, with his center-right ...

Merz, 69, promises fundamental policy shifts, including stricter migration controls and market-friendly reforms to revive ...

For Germans heading to the polls for a snap election, climate is not quite as important a factor as it used to be.

Germany will go to the polls on Sunday, February 23 after a snap election was called in December following the collapse of ...

As Germans head to the polls on Sunday to vote in pivotal legislative elections, immigration will be a key issue on their minds. It's nearly 10 years since Angela Merkel's famous phrase "Wir schaffen ...

The debt brake, or “Schuldenbremse”, caps the federal government’s new borrowing at 0.35 percent of Germany’s gross domestic ...

And yet it is anything but guaranteed how party chairman Friedrich Merz can govern a country in which the far-right Alternative for Germany comes second, polarization hits record levels, and ...

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This may be the year the firewall collapses. The AfD is now polling at about 22 percent nationally and seems destined for a ...