Friedrich Merz, nemesis of former Chancellor Angela Merkel, is confident that he will win the upcoming election — despite his ...

In trying to avoid the mistakes of the past, Germany’s liberal politicians are pushing their country right back toward them. One of the most pointless cliches holds that “those who do not learn from ...

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

A vote in Germanys national parliament (Bundestag) has led to fears that the firewall supposedly separating mainstream ...

BERLIN (AP) — Tens of thousands took to the streets across Germany on the weekend to protest against the center-right leader ...

Horst Köhler, a onetime head of the International Monetary Fund who became a popular German president before stunning the ...

The sweat was dripping off Friedrich Merz after the front-runner to become Germany’s next chancellor saw his bid to outflank an ascendant far right spectacularly backfire in the ...

Merz, now 69, represents a sharp rightward turn from Merkel’s centrist legacy. His campaign motto is “A Germany we can be ...

Ever since the end of World War II, Germany's mainstream political parties have vowed to not work with extremist right-wing ...

Wild verbal battles in the Bundestag, loud demonstrations on the streets, talk of betrayal and of taboos being broken: it has been an extraordinary few days in German politics. On Friday, parliament ...

Friedrich Merz and his Christian Democrats broke a political taboo by working with the hard-right Alternative for Germany to ...

Germany's conservatives doubled down Friday on allowing the far-right AfD to back their pre-election push to restrict ...