Polls show conservative leader Friedrich Merz’s Union leading ahead of the Feb. 23 election with around 30% support, while ...

The European Central Bank is cutting its key interest rate, a step to boost an economy that’s struggling to grow as consumers ...

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.

Europe’s economy stagnated at the end of last year as former growth engine Germany floundered to the end of a second straight ...

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

Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel criticised the leader of her Christian Democrats (CDU), Friedrich Merz, for drawing on ...

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 ...