The successful completion of the probing negotiations for the winner of the Bundestag elections, the Christian Democratic Union/Christian Social Union (CDU/CSU), was overshadowed by the negative dynamics in the polls.

Germany's would-be next chancellor, conservative leader Friedrich Merz, and the Social Democrats (SPD) with whom he is trying to form a government plan to throw out restrictive borrowing rules in a fiscal policy sea-change.

Germany’s political system is set up to exclude extremists. Yet the country is waking up to a new political reality that has lurched to the right with the once outcast Alternative for Germany (AfD) party now firmly established in German politics.

Germany's economy is in desperate need of foreign labor, but a political environment hostile to all kinds of immigrants makes it seem unlikely they'll get it.

Friedrich Merz has led his center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) to a clear election victory, polls suggest, and is now set to become Germany’s next chancellor. Flanked on stage by other ...

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Merz, the likely next chancellor of Germany, has warned that Europe can no longer count on the U.S., which he said had become "largely indifferent" to the continent's fate. His comments follow the ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Germany’s presumptive new chancellor, Friedrich Merz, faces challenges both at home and overseas following his conservative alliance’s election victory on Feb. 23 ...