Having led his party, the Christian Democrats, to first place in Germany’s election last month, Mr. Merz swiftly assumed the ...

The Die Linke star behind the party’s rise in recent elections says there is ‘real momentum for progressive politics’.

Friedrich Merz's political journey, stance on immigration, leadership style, and economic promises as the potential ...

It would be a remarkable comeback for a man pushed aside by Angela Merkel in the early 2000s and ... in 1955 to a well-known conservative, Catholic family. His father was a local judge and a ...

The AfD’s historic score in German elections worries refugees and minorities, such as the 2SLGBTQ+ community, who fear ...

Until recently, the far right was consistently excluded by mainstream political parties. It was a founding myth of the old ...

Shunned by liberal Germans, anti-immigration AfD is now the second strongest party in Germany. It's also favored by President ...

After Germany’s conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) won a plurality of seats in federal elections Sunday, party ...

Amid an economic downturn, Germans with an immigrant background are more worried about their finances than the rest of the ...

Dr Fehmida Mirza became the first woman Speaker of the National Assembly of Pakistan and the first in the Muslim world ...

She has been trade minister, foreign minister, deputy prime minister, and finance minister. During US president Donald ...