Friedrich Merz, whose conservative party is ahead in polls before Sunday’s election, sees an “epochal rupture” with a United ...

At the most newsworthy Munich Security Conference in recent memory last weekend, Germany’s likely next chancellor did all he ...

The country’s new government will need to quickly demonstrate its resilience and that it can take on the task of showing that Europe counts.

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

One of the world’s most climate-ambitious governments is about to fall, replaced by a likely chancellor who says green policy ...

Friedrich Merz is on the precipice of becoming Germany’s next chancellor. If successful, his conservatism and quest for new ...

PETER SPARDING is Senior Vice President and Director of Policy at the Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress and ...

Meanwhile, Germany’s far right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party is riding the wave of Trumpian politics, buoyed by vocal ...

The deeper rot in German governance will require more fundamental reforms than any coalition is likely to deliver.

In Bochum, a town in the German industrial Ruhr valley, cheesemonger Heike Wischnewski said she was contemplating casting her ballot for the far-right Alternative for Germany. The 60-year-old, whose ...

Europe’s leaders and officials have been blindsided by a staggering collapse in American support for Ukraine in the past week ...

European leaders are struggling to understand the sudden shift in US policy toward Ukraine, following US President Donald ...