Germany has a complicated system in which voters get two votes, one for the candidate in their own constituency, and another for a party's electoral list. There's also a minimum 5% threshold for a ...

After their initial shock at Trump’s false claims that Ukraine is led by a “dictator” who started the war with Russia, the ...

Friedrich Merz has criticized Olaf Scholz on the economy, but experts question if a government led by the Christian ...

Yet behind closed doors, Marco Rubio, the U.S. secretary of state, has sought to reassure nervous European allies that talks with Russian negotiators this week did not represent an abrupt departure ...

Top German politicians and chancellor candidates faced off one last time in a debate on local broadcaster ZDF ahead of Sunday ...

Friedrich Merz, expected to become Germany's next chancellor, promises a more assertive foreign policy aligned with a strong ...

German voters go to the polls Sunday to elect a parliament that will determine who runs the country for the next four years.

The transition to a ruthless imperialist foreign policy and authoritarian methods of rule that characterise Trump’s first ...

Konstantin Richter is a journalist at work on a book about the history of corporate Germany.

From left, activists wearing masks of German far-right chancellor candidate Alice Weidel, Elon Musk, President Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin and Vice President JD Vance protest the U.S. and Russia’s ...

The AfD’s appeal to Vance, Musk and others in President Trump’s orbit is its shared distrust of E.U. regulations, limits on ...

French President Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday he will travel to Washington to try to convince President Donald Trump that ...