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 ...

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 ...

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 conservative election frontrunner Friedrich Merz defiantly vowed Friday to pass a bill to restrict immigration with ...

German party leaders were engaged in furious last-minute talks on Friday, delaying a high-stakes debate on an immigration ...

Germany’s parliament has narrowly rejected an opposition-sponsored bill calling for tougher rules on migration that risked ...

Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel criticized Friedrich Merz, her successor as leader of the country’s conservatives, on ...