Ron Prosor is first foreign ambassador invited to meeting of heads of German states; he says the far-right AfD party has ...

His conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and their Bavarian allies, the Christian Social Union (CSU), have long seen ...

Incoming Chancellor Friedrich Merz is under growing pressure to win conservative policy concessions as coalition talks hit ...

Friedrich Merz, poised to become Germany’s next chancellor, is charting an unexpected course in relations with President ...

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

However, it will also face big foreign policy challenges— almost all of which are linked to Donald Trump. Those were the ...

Working groups for Germany's election-winning conservatives and the centre-left Social Democrats will submit findings on a ...

Friedrich Merz's debt-funded investment package is still facing unknowns, that could sink the legislation and doom his ...

FILE PHOTO: Friedrich Merz, chancellor-in-waiting and leader of Christian Democratic Union party (CDU), looks on as he ...

Even though negotiations to form a coalition have not yet begun, the head of the Christian Democratic Union party, which came ...

The likely next chancellor has staked his government on a move to increase military spending. But the window for change is ...

Under Germany's constitution, Merz needs a two-thirds majority to get the changes passed. With the support of the Greens and ...