BERLIN — Friedrich Merz, Germany's likely next chancellor, told POLITICO he's "very worried" the European Union is heading ...

Four candidates are bidding to be Germany’s next leader in Sunday’s election. The would-be chancellors are the incumbent, the ...

Germany's conservative election frontrunner Friedrich Merz pledged a stronger role for Berlin in the EU and muscular support ...

Merz did not rule out reforming Germany’s debt brake but said that structural reforms particularly in refugee and ...

With the polls stable for weeks, it is taken for granted that Friedrich Merz's conservatives will win next Sunday's elections ...

On European issues, the leader of the Christian Democrats and likely future chancellor of Germany intends to lay boundaries ...

The far-right AfD has drawn support as a spate of deadly attacks has inflamed the immigration debate. Read more at ...

Election campaign posters showing German Social Democratic Party, SPD, Chancellor Olaf Scholz, top, and his challenger ...

In the final stretch of the campaign before Sunday's vote, the candidates are fighting for every last vote, with around 30% ...

The next German government’s response could be political, legal, or possibly target Musk’s gigafactory near Berlin, ...

The German problem is back with a vengeance. Only this time the problem is not Hitler’s monstrous war machine, but the Pied ...

German opposition leader and chancellor-hopeful Friedrich Merz is scheduled to meet U.S. Vice President JD Vance for ...