It’s a huge kindergarten here,’ says the party’s Alice Weidel, to whom the chancellor won’t speak.

BERLIN — Friedrich Merz had hoped to become a foreign policy chancellor. He’d dreamed of spending his time playing a major role on the global stage rather than getting stuck in the details of ...

Germany’s Social Democratic Party (SPD) officially launched an effort seeking to ban the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, according to The ...

The ruling parties of German politics seem to have run out of ideas on how to sway voters away from the growing Alternative for Germany movement.

He patched together his coalition and won a second vote. In 2017, Mr. Merz had vowed in an interview with Bild magazine to “halve” the AfD vote. Instead, the AfD vote doubled, hitting 10 million in ...

The incoming German chancellor campaigned as a debt hawk. Then a source told him about Trump’s plans for NATO.

Increasing Germany’s pure defence spending to 3.5 per cent of GDP is, analysts agree, as historic and far-reaching moment as ex-ECB president Mario Draghi’s “whatever it takes” speech in the euro ...

Austrian leaders say while they are leading the charge on Europe’s tough-on-migration turn, they believe they have a partner ...

Socialists and liberals are rebelling against the Commission president, but she has no easy fix in working with parties ...

By all accounts, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz's visit to Donald Trump in the Oval Office was a success. But the bar was low. There are plenty of potential pitfalls for the trans-Atlantic ...

German lawmakers have voted to suspend family reunions for many migrants. It's part of a drive by the new conservative-led ...