The condemnation of the AfD has raised a fundamental dilemma of democracy: How does an open, free, pluralistic society ...

For all these reasons, we are rooting for the success of Germany’s new chancellor, Friedrich Merz. He is a 69-year-old lawyer ...

The former Bundestag president is poised to become co-leader of the SPD as it attempts a reboot after historic election ...

Germany’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its sister party, the Christian Social Union (CSU)—collectively known as the ...

The far-right Alternative für Deutschland called for fresh elections after Friedrich Merz's initial defeat in his bid to become the country's leader.

And yet Germany’s leaders have struggled to come to grips with the full dimensions of the crisis. The prior government, a three-party coalition helmed by the center-left Social Democratic Party of ...

Germany is wrongly targeting Alternative for Germany via its intelligence service. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is also wrong to defend AfD.

its second-largest meeting room has been occupied by what had often been Germany’s second-largest party, the Social Democrats. Even the room’s name, the Otto Wels Hall, bears the party’s ...

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s center-left Social Democrats have approved a deal to join a new coalition government, paving the way for parliament to elect conservative leader Friedrich Merz as the country’s ...

Germany's Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz on Monday named utility executive Katherina Reiche as his likely economy minister and ally Johann Wadephul as foreign minister, as part of a raft of ...

[AP Photo/Markus Schreiber] Germany’s Social Democratic Party (SPD) membership has voted by a clear majority in favor of a coalition government with the conservative Christian Democratic Union ...

Chancellor Friedrich Merz is about to make history with his vow to create the 'strongest conventional army in Europe,' writes ...