Starting a special operation on In Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin not only violated international law, but also ...

Former German chancellor Angela Merkel on Monday called for European unity in the face of current political challenges, ...

Germany's Green party on Monday threatened to torpedo plans put forward by likely next chancellor Friedrich Merz to invest ...

With political and economic leaders increasingly involved in strategic decisions, the debate over European military ...

"We must not think only in military terms, which is only a part of the issue, but also use diplomacy," Angela Merkel stressed ...

Forget the back-slapping pol ready to banter about the Bundesliga; Friedrich Merz is a former corporate lawyer who wrote a ...

Having led his party, the Christian Democrats, to first place in Germany’s election last month, Mr. Merz swiftly assumed the ...

Already, Merz has pledged to increase defense spending and put Paris, Warsaw, and London at the lead of a new policy to shore ...

The expected happened in the German elections held on Sunday, February 23, 2025. The turnout was the largest in decades. The electorate gave the most votes to the Christian Democrats and their sister ...

Who do I call if I want to speak to Europe? The question was famously attributed to former U.S. Secretary of State Henry ...

Germany's Social Democrats are one of the West's oldest political parties, with a legacy of advocating parliamentary democracy, opposing Nazism, and leading the modernisation of postwar Germany. In ...

The top job has been late in coming for Merz, a lawyer by profession, who saw his ascent derailed by former Chancellor Angela Merkel in the early 2000s and even turned his back on active politics for ...