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

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

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

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 ...

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

BERLIN (AP) — Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Thursday issued rare public criticism of her successor as the country's center-right leader, the front-runner in Germany's election next month, ...

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

We’ve never seen anything like this: a president who appears aligned with a Russian dictator in targeting the weak and the ...

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

Germany heads to the polls this week facing a challenge for power from the far-right. In the run-up to the historic vote, ...

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

This is unacceptable,” gasped Germany’s Minister of Defense Boris Pistorius, a Social Democrat. He is right to be nervous. In ...