As the Trump administration ramps up its rhetoric against Ukraine and NATO, European countries are taking note — with ...

With the Alternative for Germany waiting on the sidelines, any new German government coalition must hang together or hang ...

Friedrich Merz said that Europe needed to “achieve independence from the U.S., step by step.” That won’t be easy, for Europe ...

Friedrich Merz, a man who has never held a government role, is preparing to take the reins in Germany just as the country ...

Elon Musk endorsed AfD, an anti-immigration party which just won the most support of any far-right party since WWIIelection since World War II.

Friedrich Merz's CDU party emerged as the largest party in Germany's parliament, the Bundestag, earning 28.6% of the vote.

Friedrich Merz, the leader of Germany’s center-right Christian Democrats, who finished first in Sunday’s election, has vowed ...

Friedrich Merz, the leader of the centre-Right Christian Democratic Union party (CDU), has emerged as the winner of Germany’s ...

Friedrich Merz and his party won, Elon Musk didn’t seem to move voters, and more lessons from an early German vote with big ...

Germany’s political system is set up to exclude extremists. Yet the country is waking up to a new political reality that has ...

Friedrich Merz is set to become the next Chancellor at a time of great tumult at home and abroad, writes John Kampfner.