An economic slump, an immigration crisis and the lifting of a security blanket provided for decades by the U.S. are issues on the minds of German voters. The far-right AfD is polling in second place.

Friedrich Merz, a man who has never held a government role, is preparing to take the reins in Germany just as the country ...

At the most newsworthy Munich Security Conference in recent memory last weekend, Germany’s likely next chancellor did all he could to look unfazed by the unexpected endorsement of its far-right AfD ...

The leading candidate, Friedrich Merz, a conservative who has adopted many of the AfD’s hard-line positions on immigration, ...

While polling suggests Germany's far-right AfD party will fare well, it's very unlikely to be part of the next government of ...

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 ...

For good people these are times to weep, rage and, above all, to fight back! But sometimes we may allow ourselves a laugh. Such a time arrived this past ...

The problem with Europe is that it doesn’t provide enough of a deterrence on its own because it hasn’t taken the initiative ...

Friedrich Merz, whose conservative party is ahead in polls before Sunday’s election, sees an “epochal rupture” with a United ...

Friedrich Merz is on the precipice of becoming Germany’s next chancellor. If successful, his conservatism and quest for new allies to secure Europe’s nuclear deterrent could create a “two-speed Europe ...

CDU leader Friedrich Merz told the Funke media group he hoped a new coalition could be formed “by Easter”, were he and his party to come first in the poll. The goal was “ambitious”, Merz ...