The 69-year-old CDU leader Friedrich Merz is a major favourite for the German chancellorship after Sunday's snap ...

Friedrich Merz, the conservative front runner, couldn't be more different from his predecessor, Angela Merkel.

Sir Keir Starmer faces a week which may define his premiership, as he travels to Washington DC to meet President Donald Trump ...

The leader of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has been endorsed by Donald Trump - and looks set to make huge gains in ...

Friedrich Merz is a familiar face of his conservative party's old guard. Politically, he has never come across as ...

And yet it is anything but guaranteed how party chairman Friedrich Merz can govern a country in which the far-right Alternative for Germany comes second, polarization hits record levels, and ...

German voters go to the polls this weekend in an election dominated by concerns about immigration. The country is expected to ...

The rigid net zero stance of Olaf Scholz’s coalition has become electoral dynamite ...

This may be the year the firewall collapses. The AfD is now polling at about 22 percent nationally and seems destined for a ...

Having seen how unpopular the mainstream parties have become in the past few years; this German election could well upend the ...

America's abandonment of Europe is no surprise after years of increasingly isolationist and untrustworthy behaviour - its ...

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