This same incrementalism runs through much of what Mr Merz says. Even if talks between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin lead ...

With just two weeks to go (Feb 23 rd ) will the German elections, a number of new, national polls underline the lead of the ...

In countries across Europe, nativist far-right political parties have dramatically expanded their vote share in recent years, ...

Germany heads to the polls in just 10 days, with conservative leader Friedrich Merz widely expected to replace Olaf Scholz as ...

Russian-linked online disinformation networks are spreading faked spy agency warnings of terrorist attacks in Germany ahead ...

Germany’s Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Sunday clashed with opposition leader Friedrich Merz in a heated debate, accusing him of ...

Inciting hatred against migrants, rearmament, and cuts in social provisions stood at the centre of the recent prime-time ...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and his conservative rival Friedrich Merz faced off in a heated TV debate on Sunday, exactly ...

Mr Merz promises to energise the “Weimar triangle” with France and Poland, musing on military co-operation as well as joint projects in AI and quantum computing. He can imagine working “very ...

Germany’s outgoing government is the border checks it imposed on all its frontiers last fall by another six months as it ...

The networks were also spreading unfounded rumours aimed at discrediting Friedrich Merz, the conservative leader whom polls ...

IT IS A calm and confident Friedrich Merz who greets The Economist on February 7th at a luxury golf resort in Stromberg, a ...