This same incrementalism runs through much of what Mr Merz says. Even if talks between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin lead ...

Election campaign posters showing German Social Democratic Party, SPD, Chancellor Olaf Scholz, top, and his challenger ...

The anti-immigrant and far-right Alternative for Germany party has established itself as a significant political force in the ...

The authorities believe the crash, into a union’s strike-day demonstration, was a deliberate attack. The suspect is a 24-year ...

W E HAVE TWO covers this week. In most of the world we contemplate Donald Trump’s plans for the Pentagon. He recently ...

Friedrich Merz is a familiar face of his conservative party's old guard. Politically, he has never come across as ...

If anything unites the parties in Germany’s election campaign, it is running away from the former chancellor, whose legacy ...

Friedrich Merz portrayed Olaf Scholz as a ditherer who led Germany into economic crisis, while the Social Democrat presented ...

Friedrich Merz has warned of potential political or legal consequences for Elon Musk after he endorsed the far-right ...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Sunday accused election rival Friedrich Merz of having broken his word by accepting support ...

More than 200,000 protesters have demonstrated in Munich against far-right extremism ahead of the German general election ...

Friedrich Merz, likely Germany's next chancellor, faces the challenge of revitalizing the economy and addressing immigration ...