to tackle migration - prompting anger from former Chancellor Angela Merkel. CDU leader Friedrich Merz will seek the AfD's support in parliament today over the flashpoint issue after his first ...

The leader of Germany’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and a top contender for the chancellorship, Merz is playing a ...

The German chancellor-in-waiting, Friedrich Merz, has won a vote in parliament to allow a huge increase in state borrowing ...

Merz’s embrace of compromise with the SPD and the Greens (who are expected to play a role in the coalition) risks being seen ...

While reconstituting parliament is relatively easy and must ... liberal Free Democrats surprisingly broke off talks with Angela Merkel’s C.D.U. and Ms. Merkel had to start searching for a ...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel looks almost certain to clinch a fourth term in the general election next Sunday while a far-right party is poised to enter parliament for the first time since the ...

Trump hailed the result as a "GREAT DAY FOR GERMANY," while the far-right AfD party that Elon Musk has championed made historic gains.

Germany’s Bundesrat officially reformed its debt brake mechanism. This rule, introduced in 2009 under Angela Merkel, ...

It would be a remarkable comeback for a man pushed aside by Angela Merkel in the early 2000s ... politics - and being elected to the European Parliament in 1989. Four years later, and still ...