Germany's ex-chancellor Angela Merkel weighed in Thursday on a controversy flaring ahead of February elections, slamming her party successor for relying on far-right support on the flashpoint issue ...

Friedrich Merz, the front-runner to become Germany’s next chancellor, relied on votes from the far-right AfD to push an ...

Silence, stigma, shame, high costs and an odyssey of legal conditions await women seeking to end their pregnancy in Germany. Abortion is illegal here and exempt from punishment only under specific ...

Friedrich Merz leaned the right-wing AfD party to push through measures to restrict immigration.

Conservatives have cooperated with the far-right AfD for the first time, amid growing support from the tech billionaire.

The European Central Bank cut its key interest rate on Thursday, a step to boost an economy that’s struggling to grow as ...

Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel has issued rare public criticism of her successor as the country’s center-right leader ...

Germany’s conservative chancellor candidate Friedrich Merz, whose CDU/CSU coalition is leading polls by double digits, ...

The German economy contracted more than expected in the final quarter of last year, spurring again recession fears, as Europe ...

R ARELY HAS the Bundestag known such drama. On January 29th, to scenes of uproar in Germany’s parliament, a tiny majority of ...

Germany’s parliament has narrowly approved a call by Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s main challenger to turn back many more migrants ...

German election frontrunner Friedrich Merz succeeded on Wednesday in getting a motion passed in parliament that calls for a ...