Germany's conservative election frontrunner Friedrich Merz pledged a stronger role for Berlin in the EU and muscular support ...

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

Sidelined by Angela Merkel in the early 2000s, Friedrich Merz left politics for 20 years until she announced her retirement in 2018.

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

BERLIN - German opposition leader and chancellor-hopeful Friedrich Merz is scheduled to meet U.S. Vice President JD Vance for ...

Friedrich Merz is a familiar face of his conservative party's old guard. Politically, he has never come across as ...

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

Will there be a "brutally tough message" from the Americans to the Europeans, as CDU leader Friedrich Merz expects? US Vice ...

The German army's battle-readiness is less than when Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, military officials, lawmakers and ...

Vice President JD Vance and Elon Musk have challenged decades-long approaches to political extremism that were designed to ...

W E HAVE TWO covers this week. In most of the world we contemplate Donald Trump’s plans for the Pentagon. He recently ...

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