Germany's opposition leader Friedrich Merz is the front-runner in the country's election campaign, with his center-right ...

Myself, I live in Germany, where I work as a writer, concert violinist, and broker of rare violin bows. I studied violin ...

While polling suggests Germany's far-right AfD party will fare well, it's very unlikely to be part of the next government of ...

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 ...

The simplest kind of tactical nuclear weapon for Britain to develop would probably be warheads placed on an air-launched ...

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

For good people these are times to weep, rage and, above all, to fight back! But sometimes we may allow ourselves a laugh.

The problem with Europe is that it doesn’t provide enough of a deterrence on its own because it hasn’t taken the initiative ...

In Bochum, a town in the German industrial Ruhr valley, cheesemonger Heike Wischnewski said she was contemplating casting her ...

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.

Skip next section Should mandatory conscription be brought back? February 21, 2025 Should mandatory conscription be brought back? Wesley Dockery As Germany grapples with Russia's invasion of Ukraine ...