Friedrich Merz heralds a new era for Germany, after the German elections revealed a majority of young voters are leaning ...

Already, Merz has pledged to increase defense spending and put Paris, Warsaw, and London at the lead of a new policy to shore ...

The expected happened in the German elections held on Sunday, February 23, 2025. The turnout was the largest in decades. The electorate gave the most votes to the Christian Democrats and their sister ...

Well, of course not. But Germany's accidental chancellor has a crucial role to play in history, like it or not ...

Germany's Social Democrats are one of the West's oldest political parties, with a legacy of advocating parliamentary democracy, opposing Nazism, and leading the modernisation of postwar Germany. In ...

U.S. President Donald Trump is trying to end the Russia-Ukraine war without Europe’s participation (or Ukraine’s) and ...

The Washington Examiner followed the Berlin-Pankow chapter of the AfD in the days up to election night as the once-outsider ...

EXCLUSIVE: As Germany is set to get a new chancellor, an acclaimed documentary examines the leadership and legacy of a previous chancellor – Angela Merkel. The former head of the Christian Democratic ...

Friedrich Merz, chairman of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), is poised to be nominated as Germany’s next chancellor, according to preliminary results ...

After securing the largest share in the German election, Friedrich Merz has met with President Emmanuel Macron in the French ...

German conservative leader Friedrich Merz, the country's presumptive next chancellor, made a surprise visit to Paris to meet ...

Paul Hockenos is a journalist and author based in Berlin. His most recent book is “Berlin Calling: A Story of Anarchy, Music, ...